The Third Man And The Fallen Idol
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Overall good. DJ: price clipped; minor wear along the edges with small chips/nicks. Markings: Name penned on fep; small stamp and small bookseller sticker (A&R) on front pastedown. Binding: tight; boards clean and square.
In the shadowy, rubble-strewn streets of post-war Vienna, an American pulp novelist named Holly Martins arrives to visit his old friend Harry Lime — only to find that Lime has just been killed in a mysterious traffic accident. The Third Man, Graham Greene's masterwork of moral ambiguity and Cold War paranoia, chronicles Martins' obsessive investigation into the truth behind his friend's death, a journey that uncovers a vast criminal conspiracy and forces a devastating reckoning with loyalty, idealism, and human corruption. Paired alongside it, The Fallen Idol — originally titled The Basement Room — presents the tragic story of a young boy who idolises a family butler, only to become an unwitting witness to a terrible secret that shatters his innocence forever. Originally conceived as treatments for film, both novellas bear the unmistakable stamp of Greene's cinematic genius: lean, atmospheric prose, morally complex characters, and a pervasive sense of dread that lingers long after the final page. Greene's writing illuminates the treacherous gap between the world as children and idealists imagine it and the grim reality that experience reveals — a theme that resonates as powerfully today as it did in the grey aftermath of the Second World War. Whether it is the fog of Viennese intrigue or the hushed corridors of a London townhouse, Greene constructs worlds where trust is the most dangerous currency of all — and where the truth, once uncovered, can never be unseen.
Author: Graham Greene
Format: Hardback
Published: 1950, William Heinemann Ltd
Genre: Classic fiction
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Overall good. DJ: price clipped; minor wear along the edges with small chips/nicks. Markings: Name penned on fep; small stamp and small bookseller sticker (A&R) on front pastedown. Binding: tight; boards clean and square.
In the shadowy, rubble-strewn streets of post-war Vienna, an American pulp novelist named Holly Martins arrives to visit his old friend Harry Lime — only to find that Lime has just been killed in a mysterious traffic accident. The Third Man, Graham Greene's masterwork of moral ambiguity and Cold War paranoia, chronicles Martins' obsessive investigation into the truth behind his friend's death, a journey that uncovers a vast criminal conspiracy and forces a devastating reckoning with loyalty, idealism, and human corruption. Paired alongside it, The Fallen Idol — originally titled The Basement Room — presents the tragic story of a young boy who idolises a family butler, only to become an unwitting witness to a terrible secret that shatters his innocence forever. Originally conceived as treatments for film, both novellas bear the unmistakable stamp of Greene's cinematic genius: lean, atmospheric prose, morally complex characters, and a pervasive sense of dread that lingers long after the final page. Greene's writing illuminates the treacherous gap between the world as children and idealists imagine it and the grim reality that experience reveals — a theme that resonates as powerfully today as it did in the grey aftermath of the Second World War. Whether it is the fog of Viennese intrigue or the hushed corridors of a London townhouse, Greene constructs worlds where trust is the most dangerous currency of all — and where the truth, once uncovered, can never be unseen.