Graham Greene

The Living Room (eBook, ePUB)

A Play

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The illicit affair of a devout woman in London ignites a shattering family crisis in the author's "ruthlessly honest" first play (The Guardian). In a dour Holland Park house with rooms and secrets long shuttered live three unyielding forces for morality: rigidly religious sisters Helen and Teresa, and their brother, a Roman Catholic priest. Into the lives of this insular trio comes their young grandniece, Rose Pemberton, following the death of her mother. To the mortification of her aunts, Rose has also brought her lover, Michael Dennis, who is twenty-five years Rose's senior, married, and a psychology lecturer dictated by reason, not faith. In a home that reeks of sanctimony, Rose and Michael are as welcome as sin. But it's the arrival of Michael's distraught wife-armed with righteous emotional blackmail and worse-that ignites an unexpected fury and makes real the family's greatest fears. Premiering in London in 1953 and moving to Broadway one year later, Graham Greene's debut as a dramatist was hailed by Kenneth Tynan as "the best first play of its generation."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Media
• Seitenzahl: 87
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781504054270
• Artikelnr.: 53246047

Autorenporträt

Graham Greene (1904-1991) is recognized as one of the most important writers of the twentieth century, achieving both literary acclaim and popular success. His best known works include Brighton Rock, The Heart of the Matter, The Quiet American, and The Power and the Glory. After leaving Oxford, Greene first pursued a career in journalism before dedicating himself full-time to writing with his first big success, Stamboul Train. He became involved in screenwriting and wrote adaptations for the cinema as well as original screenplays, the most successful being The Third Man. Religious, moral, and political themes are at the root of much of his work, and throughout his life he traveled to some of the wildest and most volatile parts of the world, which provided settings for his fiction. Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour.