| Description |
1 online resource (160 pages). |
| Series |
Penguin classics deluxe edition |
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Penguin classics deluxe edition.
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| Access |
Access limited to subscribing institutions. |
| Summary |
Graham Greene's masterful novel of love and betrayal in World War II London is undeniably a major work of art ( The New Yorker ). Maurice Bendrix, a writer in Clapham during the Blitz, develops an acquaintance with Sarah Miles, the bored, beautiful wife of a dull civil servant named Henry. Maurice claims it's to divine a character for his novel-in-progress. That's the first deception. What he really wants is Sarah, and what Sarah needs is a man with passion. So begins a series of reckless trysts doomed by Maurice's increasing romantic demands and Sarah's tortured sense of guilt. Then, after Maurice miraculously survives a bombing, Sarah ends the affair quickly, absolutely, and without explanation. It's only when Maurice crosses paths with Sarah's husband that he discovers the fallout of their duplicity and it's more unexpected than Maurice, Henry, or Sarah herself could have imagined. Adapted for film in both 1956 and 1999, Greene's novel of all that inspires love and all that poisons it is singularly moving and beautiful (Evelyn Waugh). |
| Note |
Print version record. |
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Adultery -- Fiction.
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Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction.
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Male friendship -- Fiction.
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Terminally ill -- Fiction.
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Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.
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FICTION / Classics.
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London (England) -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Love stories.
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Psychological fiction.
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Religious fiction.
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| Added Author |
Gorra, Michael Edward.
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| Other Form: |
Other version: Greene, Graham, 1904-1991. End of the affair. New York : Penguin Books, 2004. 0142437980 (pbk.) : (DLC)2004302399 |
| Standard No. |
9781504052474 |
| ISBN |
9781504052474 (e-pub) |
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