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19 Stories
London: William Heinemann Ltd, [1947]. Item #06479
A Cornerstone Collection by Graham Greene
GREENE, Graham. 19 Stories. London: William Heinemann Ltd., [1947].
First edition. Octavo (7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 184 x 121 mm.). viii, 231, [1, blank] pp.
Publisher's dark blue cloth over boards, spine lettered in silver, original cream dust jacket printed in red and gray, one tiny closed tear at lower edge of rear fold. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.
A cornerstone collection by Graham Greene, bringing together nineteen of his short stories written between the 1920s and mid-1940s, including such celebrated pieces as “The Basement Room” (later adapted as The Fallen Idol), “The Lottery Ticket” and “The End of the Party.”
These stories reveal Greene at his most concentrated, exploring recurring themes of moral ambiguity, childhood innocence confronted with corruption, betrayal, and the tension between faith and doubt that runs throughout his work.
Issued in the immediate post-war period, Nineteen Stories helped consolidate Greene’s reputation as a master of the short form, demonstrating the same psychological acuity and narrative economy that characterize his major novels. The collection remains one of the most enduring and accessible entry points into Greene’s fiction.
Price: $650.00