{"product_id":"2026100009477-secondhand-collected-essays","title":"Collected Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st uk ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Very good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGraham Greene's Collected Essays assembles one of the twentieth century's most penetrating literary minds into a single, essential volume — a gathering of critical writing that illuminates the books, films, and figures that shaped Greene's celebrated fictional world. Ranging across literature, religion, politics, and the cinema, the collection presents Greene as a formidable cultural critic, whose sharp, economical prose cuts through pretension with the same precision that marks his landmark novels. From incisive portraits of Henry James and Joseph Conrad to reflections on the craft of writing itself, each piece reveals the intellectual architecture beneath his famously taut storytelling.\n\nGreene's essays stand as a testament to the breadth of a writer who refused to be confined to any single genre or tradition, and his characteristic blend of Catholic conscience, moral ambiguity, and wry detachment — so familiar from The Quiet American and The Heart of the Matter — permeates every page. Published by the distinguished Bodley Head imprint, this volume holds enduring value for students of modern literature and devoted readers alike. Whether dissecting a Graham Greene contemporary or interrogating his own creative impulses, the essays leave an unsettling question hanging in the air: how much of what we call criticism is, in truth, a form of self-portrait?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203179880667,"sku":"2026100009477-SECONDHAND","price":70.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/a29f7ec2-e3ca-42f5-b9cc-d02fff2346d9.png?v=1788144964","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009477-secondhand-collected-essays","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}