Greene, Graham: The Third Man

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Das vorliegende Dokument beschäftigt sich mit dem Autor Graham Greene und seinem Buch „The Third Man“. Es beginnt mit einem Überblick über Greenes Leben, angefangen bei seiner Kindheit bis hin zu seinem Tod. Danach werden seine literarischen Werke vorgestellt, darunter Romane, Kurzgeschichten, Reiseberichte, Essays, Theaterstücke und Biografien. Im Hauptteil des Dokuments wird der Inhalt von „The Third Man“ beschrieben, inklusive der Charaktere und des Plots. Die Geschichte handelt von einem Schriftsteller namens Rollo Martins, der in das von den Alliierten geteilte Wien reist, um seinen Freund Harry Lime zu besuchen, der angeblich bei einem Autounfall ums Leben kam. Martins ist jedoch überzeugt, dass Lime von einem Dritten ermordet wurde, und beginnt, seine eigenen Ermittlungen anzustellen. Der Roman entführt den Leser in eine Welt voller Verrat und Freundschaft und ist ein Klassiker der englischen Literatur.
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Graham Greene - The Third Man A classic tale of friendship and betrayal Graham Greene was in a class by himself ... He will be read and remembered as the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man s consciousness and anxiety. William Golding I. Life of the author Henry Graham Greene was born on 2 October 1904 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England and was one of six children. At the age of eight he attended the Berkhamsted school where his father Charles was the head teacher. As a teenager he was under so immense pressure that he got psychological problems and suffered a nervous breakdown. In 1922 he was enrolled on the Balliol College, Oxford and in 1926 after graduation he started to work for the London Times as sub-editor and for the Nottingham Journal as journalist, where he met his later wife Vivien Dayrell-Browning. In February 1926 before marring his wife he was received into the Roman Catholic Church, which had influenced him and his writings (moral, religious, social themes). In 1929 his first novel The Man Within was published, so he became a freelance writer in 1930, but his popularity wasn´t sealed before Stamboul Train (Orient Express) was published in 1932. In 1935 he became the house film critic for The Spectator. In 1938 he published Brighton Rock and visited Mexico to report on the religious persecution there and as a result he wrote The Lawless Roads and The Power and the Glory. In 1940 he was promoted to literary editor for The Spectator. In 1941 - ...
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