The Quiet American

by Greene, Graham

• ISBN13: 9780140243505
• ISBN10: 014024350X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-01-01
• Publisher: Penguin Group USA

Summary

This edition of Graham Greene's prophetic novel about American involvement in the Vietnam War includes the complete text of the work, along with essays by Greene, extensive historical writings, and relevant literary criticism.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chronology
The Quiet American: The Text	p. 1
The Author and His Work
Ways of Escape	p. 193
Indo-China: France's Crown of Thorns	p. 212
A Memory of Indo-China	p. 231
Return to Indo-China	p. 235
Analogies and Perspectives
Origins of the American Commitment to Vietnam	p. 243
A Society in Transition	p. 254
Report by the National Security Council on the Position of the United States with Respect to Indochina, 27 February 1950	p. 262
Press Conference, 25 July 1950	p. 265
Indochina: The Threat in Southeast Asia	p. 267
The Imperialist Aggressors Can Never Enslave the Heroic Vietnamese People	p. 284
Letter to Joseph Mankiewicz	p. 299
The Quiet American [Film commentary and plot summary]	p. 303
Two Letters	p. 307
Case of The Quiet American [Greene on the film version]	p. 310
Lansdale and Greene	p. 313
Victimized by the French and Chinese	p. 329
Into a Black Sun	p. 340
Literary Criticism
A Talkative Something-or-Other	p. 347
The Quiet American and "A Mr. Liebermann"	p. 356
The Fiction of Graham Greene: Between the Horror and the Glory	p. 366
The Quiet American: A Secular Prospect	p. 371
Transition: The Quiet American	p. 392
The Novelist and Commitment	p. 401
The Prisonhouse of Orientalism	p. 407
The Quiet American	p. 419
The Moral Situation in The Quiet American	p. 450
America and Innocence: Henry James and Graham Greene	p. 469
Vietnam	p. 479
Topics for Discussion and Papers
Selected Bibliography
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