Vintage books The Man Within Грин Грэм

Bright, photographic, evocative new covers for Greene's backlist, to celebrate one of the keystone writers of the Vintage Classics list • WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY IAN RANKIN • 'In a class by himself...the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety' William Golding • In a small continental country civil war is raging. Once a lecturer in medieval French, now a government agent, D is a scarred stranger in England, sent on a mission to buy coal at any price. Initially, this seems to be a matter of straightforward negotiation, but soon, implicated in murder, accused of possessing false documents and theft, held responsible for the death of a young woman, D becomes a hunted man, tormented by allegiances, doubts and love

Bright, photographic, evocative new covers for Greene's backlist, to celebrate one of the keystone writers of the Vintage Classics list • ‘Graham Greene's beautiful and disturbing novel is filled with tenderness, humour, excitement and doubt’ The Times • A leak is traced to a small sub-section of the secret service, sparking off the inevitable security checks, tensions and suspicions. The sort of atmosphere, perhaps, where mistakes could be made? For Maurice Castle, it is the end of the line anyway, and time for him to retire to live peacefully with his wife and child. But no-one escapes so easily from the lonely, isolated, neurotic world of the SIS

"Тихий американец" был написан Грином под воздействием личных впечатлений, полученных во время работы корреспондентом в Индокитае. События романа разворачиваются в Сайгоне в начале 1950-х годов. Политические игры здесь соседствуют с детективной интригой, а любовная линия придает этой истории особое напряжение • Книга на английском языке • Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as he intervenes he wonders why: for the sake of politics, or for love…

A gripping tragicomedy of a bungled kidnapping in a provincial Argentinean town, considered to be one of Greene's finest novels • Charley Fortnum is the 'Honorary Consul', a whisky-sodden figure of dubious authority taken by a group of rebels. As Eduardo Plarr, a local doctor, negotiates with revolutionaries and the authorities for Fortnum's release, the corruption of both becomes evident. In this spare, tense novel, Graham Greene explores the morality of a political system that turns priests into killers

Роман Грэма Грина "Англия создала меня" - это мощная и необычная история любви, действие которой разворачивается в мире, утратившем национальную идентичность и индивидуализм • Энтони Фаррант вернулся домой после того, как лгал и мошенничал, работая на Дальнем Востоке. Когда его сестра Кейт находит для него работу: стать телохранителем ее босса. Кажется, что Энтони встает на путь искупления. Но когда он получает приказы от Крога, которые идут вразрез с его принципами, Энтони начинает сливать информацию журналисту. И это решение обойдется ему гораздо дороже, чем потеря работы • Книга на английском языке • A powerful and unusual love story set in a world that has lost the comfort of national identity and individualism, told by one of the 20th century's greatest writers

"Двадцать одна история" • Знаменитый сборник рассказов одного из самых выдающихся британских писателей двадцатого века. В нем представлен самый известный рассказ Грина "Разрушители" • Написанная между 1929 и 1954 годами, каждая из этих историй несет в себе характерные темы, характерные для великих романов Грина: предательство и месть, любовь и ненависть, жалость и насилие • Начиная с культового рассказа "Разрушители", в котором банда школьников разрушает дом, переживший бомбежку, Грин предлагает нам восхитительно захватывающий взгляд на двадцать один мир, причем каждое произведение написано так же мастерски, как и его романы. От леденящей душу кульминации детского дня рождения до человека, чьи юношеские опрометчивости возвращаются, чтобы преследовать его, - это безошибочно узнаваемая работа одного из величайших и наиболее обожаемых рассказчиков двадцатого века

In a sleepy hamlet in north Sweden, the local police make a chilling discovery; nineteen people have been brutally slaughtered. It is a crime unprecedented in Sweden's history and the police are under incredible pressure to solve the killings • When Judge Birgitta Roslin reads about the massacre, she realises that she has a family connection to one of the couples involved and decides to investigate. When the police make a hasty arrest it is left to her to investigate the source of a nineteenth century diary and red silk ribbon found near the crime scene. What she will uncover leads her into an international web of corruption and a story of vengeance that stretches back over a hundred years • The Man from Beijing is a gripping political thriller and a compelling detective story from a writer at the height of his powers

'And so, with great care, he planted his hundred acorns' • While hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept, desolate valley in Provence, a man comes across a solitary shepherd called Elzeard Bouffier. Staying with him, he watches Elzeard sorting and then planting hundreds of acorns as he walks through the wilderness • Ten years later, after surviving the First World War, he visits the shepherd again. A young forest is slowly spreading over the valley - Elzeard has continued his work. Year after year the narrator returns to see the miracle being created: a verdant, green landscape that is testament to one man's creative instinct. miracle he is gradually creating: a verdant, green landscape that is a testament to one man's creative instinct

From the author of The Stolen Bicycle - longlisted for the International Man Booker Prize • On the island of Wayo Wayo, every second son must leave on the day he turns fifteen as a sacrifice to the Sea God. Atile’i however is determined to defy destiny and become the first to survive • Across the sea, Alice Shih’s life is interrupted when a vast trash vortex comes crashing onto the shore of Taiwan, bringing Atile’i with it • In the aftermath of the catastrophe, Atile’i and Alice retrace her late husband’s footsteps into the mountains, hoping to solve the mystery of her son’s disappearance. On their journey, memories will be challenged, an unusual bond formed, and a dark secret uncovered that will force Alice to question everything she thought she knew

Spiralling into an alcohol-fuelled depression after killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Kurt Wallander has made up his mind to quit the police force for good • When an old acquaintance seeks Wallander's help to investigate the suspicious circumstances in which his father has died, Kurt doesn't want to know. But when his former friend turns up dead, shot three times, Wallander realises that he was wrong not to listen • Against his better judgment, he returns to work to head what may now have become a double murder case. An enigmatic big-business tycoon seems to be the common denominator in the two deaths. But while Wallander is on the trail of the killer, somebody is on the trail of Wallander, and closing in fast

Frank Buckland was an extraordinary man – surgeon, natural historian, popular lecturer, bestselling writer, museum curator, and a conservationist before the concept even existed • Eccentric, revolutionary, prolific, he was one of the nineteenth century’s most improbable geniuses. His lifelong passion was to discover new ways to feed the hungry. Rhinoceros, crocodile, puppy-dog, giraffe, kangaroo, bear and panther all had their chance to impress, but what finally - and, eventually, fatally - obsessed him was fish • Forgotten now, he was one of the most original, far-sighted and influential natural scientists of his time, held as high in public esteem as his great philosophical enemy, Charles Darwin