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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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