The Man Within

by Graham Greene
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Graham Greene's first novel, a taste of greatness to come

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The Man Within tells the story of Andrews, a young man who has betrayed his fellow smugglers and fears their vengeance. Fleeing from them, with no hope of pity or salvation, he takes refuge in the house of a young woman, also alone in the world. She persuades him to give evidence against his accomplices in court, but neither she nor Andrews is aware that to both criminals and authority treachery is as great a crime as smuggling.

Editorial Reviews

"Closer inspection reveals The Man Within to be full of treasures for Greene enthusiasts: a complex web of betrayal and deceit and a central character tormented by the young woman in whose house he is hiding. Like a grand master's youthful doodles, the novel contains, in sketch form, many of the themes to which Greene would return in his mature years." - Observer

"From the beginning Greene was fascinated by the thriller, which has at its heart deceit, an idea or an ideal betrayed, emotion hidden behind a mask." - Guardian

"Greene had wit and grace and character and story, and a transcendant, universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature" - John Le Carre

"He was a writer who was intensely interested in the world more than in books or ideas. And this is why he was such a good story-teller. He was the least parochial of writers yet he was always interested in the particular" - John Berger

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