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Author Greene, Graham, 1904-1991, author.

Title The quiet American / Graham Greene ; introduction by Robert Stone.

Publication Info. New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2004.
©1955.

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Description xx, 180, [4] pages ; 22 cm.
Series Penguin classics deluxe edition
Penguin classics deluxe edition.
Note "Graham Greene centennial, 1904-2004"--Cover.
"First published ... by William Heinemann Ltd 1955 ... This edition ... published in Penguin Books (U.S.A.) 2004"--Title page verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages xix-xx).
Contents Introduction / Robert Stone -- Suggestions for further reading / Michael Gorra -- Quiet American.
Summary This novel is a study of New World hope and innocence set in an Old World of violence. The scene is Saigon in the violent years when the French were desperately trying to hold their footing in the Far East. The principal characters are a skeptical British journalist, his attractive Vietnamese mistress, and an eager young American sent out by Washington on a mysterious mission.
Subject Indochinese War, 1946-1954 -- Fiction.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.
Americans -- Indochina -- Fiction.
British -- Indochina -- Fiction.
War correspondents -- Fiction.
Indochina -- Fiction.
Vietnam -- Fiction.
Indochinese War (1946-1954) (OCoLC)fst00970511
Americans. (OCoLC)fst00807488
British. (OCoLC)fst00839044
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) (OCoLC)fst01156439
War correspondents. (OCoLC)fst01170456
Indochina. (OCoLC)fst01243492
Vietnam. (OCoLC)fst01204778
Chronological Term 1946 - 1954
Genre/Form Psychological fiction.
Political fiction.
War stories.
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Political fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726702
Psychological fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726481
Added Author Stone, Robert, 1937-2015, introduction.
Other Form: Online version: Greene, Graham, 1904-1991. Quiet American. New York : Penguin Books, 2004 (OCoLC)657310461
ISBN 0143039024 (pbk.)
9780143039020 (pbk.)
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