Cedric - A Preface to Greene

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A PREFACE TO

G R E E N E

CEDRIC WATTS

First published 1997 by Pearson Education Limited

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Contents

Unless otherwise specified, quotations from Greenes novels are taken from the British first editions listed in the bibliography. Frequently, they differ significantly in punctuation and phrasing from the US first editions and some later editions. For example, the first US edition of Brighton Rock (published by Viking) has a character called Drewitt and lacks some of the Jewish allusions of the first British edition (Heinemann); and that Viking hardback version is the ancestor of the Viking, early Penguin and Bantam paperbacks. The Heinemann version (in which that character is called Prewitt) is the ancestor of the British Uniform and Library editions. For the Collected Edition (Heinemann and Bodley Head, 1970), Greene revised the text; among many other changes, he removed various Jewish allusions. Later Penguin texts follow the Collected Edition text.

Quotations from the tales are taken from Collected Stories (London: Bodley Head and Heinemann, 1972) or, in the case of tales not included in Collected Stories, from the first British collections in which the items appeared. Quotations from the essays are from Collected Essays (London: Bodley Head, 1969) unless otherwise indicated. Quotations from the plays are from the editions listed in the bibliography.

In any quotation, a row of three points () indicates an ellipsis already present in the cited text, whereas a row of five points indicates an omission I have made. I have corrected the accentuation of some foreign names. Any other changes to quotations are enclosed in square brackets.

During the preparation of this book, I was greatly helped by Norman Sherrys The Life of Graham Greene, Vols I and II. Michael Sheldens Graham Greene: The Man Within was also useful. For advice on various details, I am indebted to Professors David Leon Higdon, John Rhl, Michael Shelden, Norman Sherry and Norman Vance. Professor Hugh Drake deserves my particular gratitude for his extensive help, advice and encouragement.

We are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce copyright material:

Faber & Faber Ltd for extracts from T. S. Eliot: Selected Essays (1951); the authors agents on behalf of the Graham Greene Estate for extracts from his The Name of Action, Rumour at Nightfall, Stamboul Train, A Gun for Sale, Brighton Rock, The Confidential Agent, The Power and the Glory, The Ministry of Fear, The Heart of the Matter, The Third Man and The Fallen Idol, The Quiet American, Our Man in Havana, A Burnt-Out Case (all published by Heinemann: 1930, 1931, 1932, 1936, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1943, 1948, 1950, 1955, 1958, 1961); In Search of a Character, A Sense of Reality, Carving a Statue, Collected Essays, A Sort of Life, The Honorary Consul, Ways of Escape, The Other Man (all published by the Bodley Head: 1961, 1963, 1964, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1980, 1983); Why Do I Write? (published by Marshall, 1948); Reflections (published by Reinhardt, 1990); The Pleasure-Dome (published by Secker, 1972);