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    A Study Guide for Graham Greene's "The Third Man"
    A Study Guide for Graham Greene's "The Third Man"
    A Study Guide for Graham Greene's "The Third Man"
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    A Study Guide for Graham Greene's "The Third Man"

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    A Study Guide for Graham Greene's "The Third Man," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateMar 1, 2016
    ISBN9781535824132
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      The Third Man

      Graham Greene

      1950

      Introduction

      Graham Greene was one of the most prolific, popular, and acclaimed authors of the twentieth century, producing dozens of stage plays, screenplays, novels, and entertainments—his term for his less literary works of fiction, which were usually espionage thrillers. A British citizen born in 1904, Greene traveled widely, on his own, in the employ of his government, and as a journalist. He trekked across Liberia in 1935, worked as a secret agent in Sierra Leone during World War II, and witnessed uprisings against colonizing powers in Kenya, Malaysia, and Vietnam. Accordingly, much of his fiction is set in foreign locales, including Mexico and Cuba. The Third Man takes place in Vienna, Austria, which was occupied by the victorious Allied powers after World War II. Originally conceived as a screenplay and produced in 1949 as a film, which won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, the treatment was subsequently published by Greene in condensed form in American Magazine in March 1949 and as a novella in 1950. In the novella, Colonel Calloway, a Scotland Yard detective stationed with the military police in Austria, narrates how Rollo Martins arrived in Vienna to find that his friend Harry Lime had just been killed in an accident—and was believed by the police to have been a ruthless racketeer. Following his conscience, Martins tries to clear his friend's name, but the truth proves more elusive, and fatal, than he expected.

      Author Biography

      Greene was born Henry Graham Greene in Berkhampsted, England, on October 2, 1904, the fourth of six children born to Charles and Marion Greene. In his upper-middle-class family, the young Greene experienced a sheltered childhood infused with rigid Victorian values, which he would later come to question. Greene's father was the headmaster at the Berkhampsted School, which proved such a burden socially and emotionally that in his adolescence Greene sought to escape his circumstances and even experimented with solitary Russian roulette. When he was sixteen, his parents decided to send him to London for six months of psychoanalysis, then a fairly new therapeutic approach, which he would recall as a very pleasant period of his life. Scholars note that this experience surely fueled his later development as an author with a great capacity for psychological insight and an intuitive understanding of people's motivations and the meanings of their dreams. He was a passionate reader, and early literary influences included H. Rider Haggard, Marjorie Bowen, Joseph Conrad, and Henry James. After finishing his secondary schooling in 1922, Greene studied history at Balliol College, Oxford University, where he led a carefree—that is, a fiscally irresponsible and often intoxicated—existence. After gaining a bachelor of arts degree in 1925, inspired by his future wife,

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