In the first volume of Norman Sherry's celebrated biography, Greene's early life is explored through letters, diaries, and hundreds of interviews, including a breakdown in his early teens, his years at Oxford, and, most particularly, his ...

The three volumes of The Life of Graham Greene will remain the standard work on Greene for decades to come.

With thorough research and deft and fascinating touch, Norman Sherry has created an absorbing and compelling biography of one of the major literary figures of our time.

The book that emerges is without doubt one of the most revealing literary biographies of the decade.

Based on unparalleled access to letters, diaries, and Greene himself, this book gives us the writer at the height of his fame, in the company of such literary luminaries as T. S. Eliot, Evelyn Waugh, Ian Fleming, and Ernest Hemingway.

Relates Greene's early years, his rise in the world of literature, his love affair with an American woman, the end of his marriage, and his experiences as a spy.

Professor Sherry establishes how well Conrad knew the East and how the original material he garnered there was supplemented from other sources; he also shows what Conrad made of his experiences, thus revealing clearly what the artist's own ...

Conrad's Western World traces the sources of Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and some of the short stories related to these novels.

"An astonishingly thorough yet readable story, hard-nosed yet sympathetic...." - Margaret Atwood (1995)