The Tenth Man
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First Edition Thus
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
In the shadow of Nazi-occupied France, a wealthy lawyer named Louis Chavel makes a desperate and damning bargain: to buy his life from a death sentence by surrendering his entire fortune to the family of a fellow prisoner who agrees to die in his place. Graham Greene's The Tenth Man is a taut, morally electrifying novella that chronicles Chavel's agonising attempt to live with the consequences of his cowardice — a reckoning that deepens dramatically when he encounters the dead man's family in disguise, unrecognised as the architect of their misery. Greene, one of the twentieth century's most astute chroniclers of guilt and grace, constructs a lean and pitiless moral fable that bears all the hallmarks of his celebrated entertainments — spare, pressurised prose, an atmosphere thick with dread, and characters who are neither wholly condemned nor redeemed. Originally written as a film treatment in the 1940s and believed lost for decades before its rediscovery, The Tenth Man carries the urgency of a writer working at the height of his powers, and its central question — can a man ever truly escape the worst version of himself? — lingers long after the final page.
Author: Graham Greene
Format: Hardback
Published: 1985
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: First Edition Thus
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
In the shadow of Nazi-occupied France, a wealthy lawyer named Louis Chavel makes a desperate and damning bargain: to buy his life from a death sentence by surrendering his entire fortune to the family of a fellow prisoner who agrees to die in his place. Graham Greene's The Tenth Man is a taut, morally electrifying novella that chronicles Chavel's agonising attempt to live with the consequences of his cowardice — a reckoning that deepens dramatically when he encounters the dead man's family in disguise, unrecognised as the architect of their misery. Greene, one of the twentieth century's most astute chroniclers of guilt and grace, constructs a lean and pitiless moral fable that bears all the hallmarks of his celebrated entertainments — spare, pressurised prose, an atmosphere thick with dread, and characters who are neither wholly condemned nor redeemed. Originally written as a film treatment in the 1940s and believed lost for decades before its rediscovery, The Tenth Man carries the urgency of a writer working at the height of his powers, and its central question — can a man ever truly escape the worst version of himself? — lingers long after the final page.