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The Man Within

Pages
220
Published
1947
Language
English

Synopsis

Andrews, a young smuggler, betrays his associates and flees their wrath, seeking refuge with a solitary young woman named Elizabeth. She convinces him to testify against his former partners, but they soon discover that in the eyes of both criminals and the law, treachery is a grave offense. This debut novel by Graham Greene explores the dangerous consequences of loyalty and deceit.

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About the author

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Graham Greene

Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English novelist, short-story writer, playwright and journalist, widely regarded as one of the major British writers of the twentieth century. Born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, and educated at Balliol College, Oxford, he converted to Roman Catholicism in 1926 and worked as a copy editor on The Times before becoming film critic and literary editor of The Spectator. During the Second World War he served with the Foreign Office in Freetow...

Characters

Captain AndrewsProtagonist
ElizabethSupporting
All characters in The Man Within