Graham Greene the Entertainer

by Peter Wolfe and Associate Professor Peter Wolfe Ph.D.

Until 1970, Graham Greene made a sharp distinction between his novels and his lighter fiction, which he called entertain­ments. The use of the two categories seems to indicate that the latter books are trivial and inferior; yet Peter Wolfe shows that the entertainments are more than escape fiction; they are, rather, an almost distinct new genre.

Wolfe focuses on seven books, from Orient Express (1932)...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809305801
• ISBN13: 9780809305803
• Release Date: October 1972
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.9" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Impressive book on Greene and popular culture

This is an informative book about popular culture (what makes a thriller a thriller, with good information about Alfred Hitchcock and Edgar Wallace at times, too) and about Greene's earlier novels. I suspect the other reviewer is a student of the author (he teaches in St. Louis) who may be disgruntled over a course grade and attempting some web sabotage. People who like Greene will like this book.