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Two short novels by Graham Greene, both of them re-workings of successful screenplays. THE THIRD MAN, based on the 1949 film, is the story of a writer who goes to postwar Vienna to work for a friend who turns out to be a gangster and black marketeer. THE FALLEN IDOL, a novelization of the 1948 film that was, in turn, based on Greene's short story "The Basement Room," is about a little boy who inadvertently betrays the family butler--his friend--to the police when the man's wife dies suddenly.
| Details | | Series: | Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics |
| Size | | Height: | 7.8 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.2 in | | Weight: | 4.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"The ease [in 'The Third Man'], the use of occasional characterization, the unrelieved and undeviating tension demonstrate again a mystery of this medium."
Cournos
"The story [in 'The Third Man'] of the hack writer who explored the rubble of Vienna for his dead friend Harry Lime is a good one, and there is real suspense to his quest. But in story form it lacks a visual quality which made the movie superior. And it also lacks the introspective quality which has made Mr. Greene's other novels and short stories superior. In other words, it is neither fish nor fowl."
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