Graham Greene: The Dangerous Edge

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction: The Dangerous Edge

   • Judith Adamson

   Pages 1-12

3. Between Wars

   • Judith Adamson

   Pages 13-42

4. Greene’s Mexico

   • Judith Adamson

   Pages 43-69

5. Scobie’s War

   • Judith Adamson

   Pages 70-90

6. A Detached Point of View

   • Judith Adamson

   Pages 91-116

7. Vietnam

   • Judith Adamson

   Pages 117-138

8. Our Man in Cuba and Haiti

   • Judith Adamson

   Pages 139-161

9. The Novelist and the General

   • Judith Adamson

   Pages 162-183

10. A Knight Errant

    • Judith Adamson

    Pages 184-198

11. Back Matter

    Pages 199-216

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Since the war Graham Greene has travelled habitually to the world's trouble-spots and has provided leading newspapers and journals with articles about what he saw. While contending that a writer must be free of political affiliations he has commmitted himself to many countries and causes, and while insisting that literature must never be used for political ends he has written novels informed by a political urgency. The Dangerous Edge is about his political reportage and how the observations that formed it were transformed into literature. It is about how a novelist who struggled to record public issues dispassionately became in the process an important political conscience.

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• literature
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• politics

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