The Quiet American
Victorino Mapa High School
Quiapo, Manila
The Quiet American
By: Graham Greene
Danielle May P. Basilio IV-4
Mrs.Ballinan
I. About the Author
Graham Greene was born in 1904 and educated at Berhamsted School, where his father was the headmaster. On coming down from Balliol College, Oxford, where he published the book of verse, he worked for 4 years as a sub-editor on The Times. He established his reputation with his fourth novel, Stamboul Train, which he classed as an ‘entertainment’ in order to distinguish it from more serious work. In 1935 he made a journey across Liberia, and on his return was appointed film critic of the Spectator . in 1926 he had been received into the Roman Catholic Church and was commissioned persecution there. As a result he wrote The Lawless Roads and late, The Power and the Glory. The Next Year he took work for the foreign Office and was sent out to Sierra Leone in 1941-1943. One of his major post-war novels, The Heart Of The Matter, is set in West Africa and is considered by many to be his finest book. This was followed by The End of the Affair, The Quiet American, a story set in Vietnam, Our Man in Havana, and A burnt-Out Case. Many of his novels have been filmed, plus two of his short stories, and The Third Man was written as a film treatment. His other publications include The Honorary Consul (1973), Lord Rochester’s Monkey (1974), a biography, An Impossible Woman: The Human Factor Party (1980). His first volume of autobiography was A Sort Of Life (1971) and Ways of Escape, a second autobiographical volume was published in 1980. In all Graham Greene has written some thirty novels; entertainments, plays, children’s books , travel books, and collections of essays and short stories. He was made a Companion of Honour in 1966
II. Introduction
The Quiet American is an anti-war novel by English author Graham Greene, first published in the United Kingdom in 1955 and in the United States in 1956. It was
Quiapo, Manila
The Quiet American
By: Graham Greene
Danielle May P. Basilio IV-4
Mrs.Ballinan
I. About the Author
Graham Greene was born in 1904 and educated at Berhamsted School, where his father was the headmaster. On coming down from Balliol College, Oxford, where he published the book of verse, he worked for 4 years as a sub-editor on The Times. He established his reputation with his fourth novel, Stamboul Train, which he classed as an ‘entertainment’ in order to distinguish it from more serious work. In 1935 he made a journey across Liberia, and on his return was appointed film critic of the Spectator . in 1926 he had been received into the Roman Catholic Church and was commissioned persecution there. As a result he wrote The Lawless Roads and late, The Power and the Glory. The Next Year he took work for the foreign Office and was sent out to Sierra Leone in 1941-1943. One of his major post-war novels, The Heart Of The Matter, is set in West Africa and is considered by many to be his finest book. This was followed by The End of the Affair, The Quiet American, a story set in Vietnam, Our Man in Havana, and A burnt-Out Case. Many of his novels have been filmed, plus two of his short stories, and The Third Man was written as a film treatment. His other publications include The Honorary Consul (1973), Lord Rochester’s Monkey (1974), a biography, An Impossible Woman: The Human Factor Party (1980). His first volume of autobiography was A Sort Of Life (1971) and Ways of Escape, a second autobiographical volume was published in 1980. In all Graham Greene has written some thirty novels; entertainments, plays, children’s books , travel books, and collections of essays and short stories. He was made a Companion of Honour in 1966
II. Introduction
The Quiet American is an anti-war novel by English author Graham Greene, first published in the United Kingdom in 1955 and in the United States in 1956. It was