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THE MAN WITHIN is the first novel Graham Greene published. It is a story of loyalty and betrayal among a band of smugglers on the coast of Sussex. The protagonist, Andrews, struggles with the enduring presence of his dead father, who had led the smugglers before he died.
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Graham Greene, who died on April 3 aged 86, was not only one of this century's pre-eminent novelists. He was ... a committed and active opponent of repressive regimes around the world, and he maintained an enduring relationship with national liberation movements and progressive governments in Latin America and elsewhere.
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British novelist Graham Greene, author of such classics as Brighton Rock, The Third Man and The End of the Affair, visited and stayed on Achill Island a number of times in the late 1940s. He wrote parts of the novels The Heart of the Matter (subsequently banned in Ireland) and The Fallen Idol in the village of Dooagh, and Achill Island is ... said to have inspired Greene to write some of his best poetry.
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The "victory" for which Greene prayed in his speech in Nicaragua turned out to be an ambiguous one. The Sandinistas militarily defeated the contra proxy forces, but they fell from power in 1990, largely owing to the bloodshed and economic ruin caused by the U.S. war and economic siege. But such ambiguities wouldn't, in themselves, have fazed Greene. He made ambiguity the foundation of much of his greatest fiction. It is there in the character of the anti-hero priest in his early masterpiece, The Power and the Glory. The elusive relationship between "real life" and miraculous intervention forms a sub-text of The End of the Affair (1951), one of the most mysterious and heartbreaking love stories ever written.
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The End of the Affair [W]as drew partly on Greene's affair with Catherine Walston, whom he had met in 1946. She was married to one of the richest men in England, Henry Walston, a prominent supporter of the Labour Party. Catherine was the mother of five children. Greene's relationship with Walston continued over ten years and produced another book, AFTER TWO YEARS (1949), which was printed 25 copies. Most of them were later destroyed. In The End of the Affair Catherine was 'Sarah Miles' and the writer himself the popular novelist 'Maurice Bendix', who narrates the story and tries to understand why Sarah left him.
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Once, Molly tried to explain her devotion to Graham Greene to her mother. "He took sides," she said. "He was fearless." No one who heard this, and there were plenty of them, remembered or cared what all the sides once were but he always had. What he found indecent was the injustice that the poor of the world were in the habit of enduring, and the arrogance of the dictators and the bloated malevolent governments, so often propped up and pampered by the United States.
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