![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout the 1930s, Greene wrote novels, reviewed books and movies for the Spectator, and traveled through eastern Europe, Liberia, and Mexico. Stamboul Train (also published as The Orient Express) was the first of many commercial successes. Finally, pressed for money, he set out to write a work of popular fiction. At age 21 he converted to Roman Catholicism, later saying, "I had to find a religion.to measure my evil against." His first published novel, The Man Within, did well enough to earn him an advance from his publishers, but though Greene quit his job as a London Times subeditor to write full-time, his next two novels were unsuccessful. Greene spent his university years at Oxford "drunk and debt-ridden," and claimed to have played Russian roulette as an antidote to boredom. ![]() "Greeneland" is a place of seedy bars and strained loyalties, of moral dissolution and physical decay. But although Greene produced some unabashedly commercial works-he called them "entertainments," to distinguish them from his novels-even his escapist fiction is rooted in the gritty realities he encountered around the globe. Known for his espionage thrillers set in exotic locales, Graham Greene is the writer who launched a thousand travel journalists. ![]()
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