Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. of the questions Graham Greene confronts us with in The Quiet American. This Graham Greene Centennial Edition includes a new introductory essay by Robert Stone. It provides you with extensive background material about the author and the book. Originally published in 1956 and twice adapted to film, The Quiet American remains a terrifiying and prescient portrait of innocence at large. But Fowler’s motives for intervening are suspect, both to the police and himself, for Pyle has stolen Fowler’s beautiful Vietnamese mistress. brilliantly constructed novel of love and chaos in 1950s Vietnam (Zadie Smith, The Guardian ). As young Pyle’s well-intentioned policies blunder into bloodshed, Fowler, a seasoned and cynical British reporter, finds it impossible to stand safely aside as an observer. Pyle is the brash young idealist sent out by Washington on a mysterious mission to Saigon, where the French Army struggles against the Vietminh guerrillas. The Quiet American Paperback Novemby Graham Greene (Author) 5,965 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 3.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 23.99 1 New from 23.99 Paperback 25.13 52 Used from 1.50 9 New from 20.48 2 Collectible from 38.

Graham Greene’s classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused, Graham Greene’s narrator Fowler remarks of Alden Pyle, the eponymous Quiet American of what is perhaps the most controversial novel of his career.

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