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Initially written as a screenplay Greene later transferred the film treatment to novel form as a novella, published together with The Fallen Idol. Set in post-war Vienna The Third Man concerns the mysterious Harry Lime, a black market trader thought by the authorities to be dead.
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- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Graham Greene
- First published
- 1935
- Pages
- 134
- Publisher
- Bantam, Viking Press, Simon and Schuster
- Editions
- 59
- Language
- Spanish, Dutch, French, Italian
- ISBN
- 9780370106007
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“ONE NEVER knows when the blow may fall.”
Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer, both of serious Catholic novels, and of thrillers. He was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times. Through 67 years of writing, which included over 25 novels, he explored the conflicting moral and political issues of the modern world. *The Power and the Glory* won the 1941 Hawthornden Prize and *The Heart of the Matter* won the 1948 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the B
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