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The quiet American
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- ISBN: 014024350X
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Physical Description:
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xxv, 515 p. ; 20 cm. - Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 1996.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [509]-515). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | I. The Quiet American: The Text -- II. The Author and His Work. Ways of Escape / Graham Greene. Indo-China: France's Crown of Thorns / Graham Greene. A Memory of Indo-China / Graham Greene. Return to Indo-China / Graham Greene -- III. Analogies and Perspectives. Origins of the American Commitment to Vietnam / Robert F. Futrell. A Society in Transition / Nguyen Duy Hinh and Tran Dinh Tho. Report by the National Security Council on the Position of the United States with Respect to Indochina, 27 February 1950. Press Conference, 25 July 1950 / Ho Chi Minh. Indochina: The Threat in Southeast Asia / Doris M. Condit. The Imperialist Aggressors Can Never Enslave the Heroic Vietnamese People / Ho Chi Minh. Letter to Joseph Mankiewicz / Edward Geary Lansdale. The Quiet American [Film commentary and plot summary] / Renny Christopher. Two Letters / Edward Geary Lansdale. Case of The Quiet American [Greene on the film version] / Christopher Hawtree. Lansdale and Greene / Jonathan Nashel. Victimized by the French and Chinese / Keith Honaker. Into a Black Sun / Takeshi Kaiko -- IV. Literary Criticism. A Talkative Something-or-Other / A. J. Liebling. The Quiet American and "A Mr. Liebermann" / Lisa Vargo. The Fiction of Graham Greene: Between the Horror and the Glory / R. W. B. Lewis. The Quiet American: A Secular Prospect / Georg Gaston. Transition: The Quiet American / A. A. DeVitis. The Novelist and Commitment / Philip Stratford. The Prisonhouse of Orientalism / Zakia Pathak, Saswati Sengupta and Sharmila Purkayastha. The Quiet American / Brian Thomas. The Moral Situation in The Quiet American / Miriam Allott. America and Innocence: Henry James and Graham Greene / John Cassidy. Vietnam / Judith Adamson. |
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| Subject: | Indochinese War, 1946-1954 -- Fiction Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction Americans -- Indochina -- Fiction War correspondents -- Fiction Indochina -- Fiction Vietnam -- Fiction |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Lansdowne Library | PR 6013 R44 Q5 1996 (Text) | 26040002969745 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - | ||
| Lansdowne Library | PR 6013 R44 Q5 1996 (Text) | 26040003006380 | Main Collection | Available | - |
