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Graham Greene was born in 1904 and died in 1991. His life covered eighty-seven years of the twentieth century. As his fame grew, it brought him access to statesmen, churchmen, and the press in the many countries. Travel was essential to him, in particular to places where danger existed. His gifts as a storyteller were inspired by the political and moral conflicts of the twentieth century. In style he regarded simplicity as the central virtue. This combination of representativeness and accessibility gave him an immense popular appeal, enabling him to invade the public imagination as few writers in our time have done. This book is intended not as a survey of all his work, but as an attempt to account for his representativeness within the culture of the twentieth century.
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- Graham Greene , pp. 1Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 1996