Informative, broad-ranging, this title sheds new light on the life and literary art of one of the last century's most celebrated authors.The first volume to be authorized by the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust, "Dangerous Edges of Graham Greene" brings together writers, journalists and scholars to investigate as well as to assess Greene's prolific oeuvre and intense personal interests.Here the reader may explore everything from Greene's Vienna at the time of the filming of "The Third Man" to his sometimes fraught relationship with Evelyn Waugh, from Greene's unconventional fictional treatment of women to his "believing skepticism".While Greene often informed friends that "a ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system", critics of his literary art have found it extraordinarily difficult to define the content of this "ruling passion".Perhaps this is because Greene's own character seems so paradoxical, ironic even.Moreover, in believing that sin contains within itself the seeds of saintliness, he consistently loiters on what Robert Browning calls "the dangerous edge of things". In exploring this "dangerous edge", this book covers the full breadth of Greene's life and literary career.

"Foreword." David Lodge "Introduction."Mark Bosco, S. J. and Dermot Gilvary1. "Stamboul Train: The Timetable for 1932." David R.A. Pearce2. "'Ghost on the Rooftops': How Joseph Conrad Haunted Graham Greene." Cedric Watts 3. "The Making of the Outsider in the Short Stories of the 1930s." Rod Mengham4. "The Riddles of Graham Greene: Brighton Rock Revisited." François Gallix 5. "Innocence and Experience: The Condition of Childhood in Graham Greene's Fiction." Peter Hollindale 6. "Janiform Greene: Paradoxes and Pleasures of The Power and the Glory." Cedric Watts 7. "Sigmund Freud and Graham Greene in Vienna." Brigitte Timmermann 8. "Going Especially Careful: Language Reference in Graham Greene." David Crystal 9. "Prophecy and Comedy in Havana: Graham Greene's Spy Fiction and Cold War Reality." Christopher Hull 10. "Graham Greene and A Burnt-out Case: A Psychoanalytic Reading" Michael Brearley 11. "A Touch of Evolutionary Religion." Darren J. N. Middleton12. "Inside and Outside: Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh." Robert Murray Davis 13. "The Long Wait for Aunt Augusta: Reflections on Graham Greene's Fictional Women." Judith Adamson 14. "Graham Greene and Alfred Hitchcock." Mike Hill 15. "The Plays of Graham Greene." Michael Billington 16. "Graham Greene and Charlie Chaplin." Neil Sinyard 17. "The Later Graham Greene: From Modernist to Moralist" Frances McCormack"Afterword: Reading Graham Greene in the Twenty-First Century"Monica AliFor Further ReadingWebsites Relating to Graham GreeneContributorsIndex