...Glory. In 1940 he as promoted to literary editor for The Spectator. In 1941 - orld ar To - he began to spy voluntarily for the British Foreign Office in Sierra Leone, estern Africa and resigned in 1943 because of being accused of collusion and traitorous activities that never substantiated. He spent the rest of the ar travelling idely and produced on his experiences he made The Heart of the Matter in 1948. In 1950 The Third Man as published hich as ritten as a film treatment. So the book became famous after the movie had been released in 1949 and Greene states The Third Man as never to be read but only to be seen. In 1975 he separated from his ife and on 3 April 1991 he died in Vevey, Sitzerland. Greenes novels can be divided into entertainments e.g. The Third Man, Our Man In Havana and serious novels e.g. The Matter of The Heart. The entertainments set priority on the suspense not on the message and the serious novels deal ith serious problems. He as influenced by R. Broning, Joseph Conrad, R. L. Stevenson his grand-uncle, Rider Hagards, M. Boens and John Buchans. In his entertainments he uses the devices of a thriller to sho the struggle beteen good and evil ithin his characters, also the conflict ithin his characters beteen secular love and love of god, also moral doubt and psychological conflict. His novels are filled ith exotic locales, vivid imagery and unique detached portrayal of characters that became his trademark, hich also made up the terms Greeneland, stream of consciousness and seediness of the orld. He often dealt ith topical incidents mixed ith fiction, so he became a kind of a predictor because like in The Third Man the fictitious crime as true. II. Literary orks of the author NOVELS The Man ithin The Name of Action Rumour at Nightfall Stamboul Train Its a Battlefield England Made Me A Gun for Sale Brighton Rock The Confidential Agent The Poer and the Glory The Ministry of Fear The Heart of the Matter The Third Man The End of the Affair Loser Takes All The Quiet American Our Man in Havana A Burnt-Out Case The Comedians Travels ith my Aunt The Honorary Consul The Human Factor Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party Monsignor Quixote The Tenth Man The Captain and the Enemy SHORT STORIES Tenty-One Stories A Sense of Reality May e Borro Your Husband The Last ord and other stories TRAVEL Journey ithout Maps The Laless Roads In Search of a Character Getting to Kno the General ESSAYS Collected Essays The Pleasure Dome British Dramatists Jaccuse Yours etc. Reflections PLAYS The Living Room The Potting Shed The Complaisant Lover Carving a Statue The Return of A. J. Raffles The Great Joett Yes and No For hom the Bell Chimes AUTOBIOGRAPHY A Sort of Life ays of Escape Fragments of Autobiography A orld of My On A Dream Diary BIOGRAPHY Lord Rochesters Monkey An Impossible oman CHILDRENS BOOKS The Little Train The Little Horse-Bus The Little Steamroller The Little Fire Engine III. The novel Dramatis personae Rollo Martins alias Buck Dexter, English author of cheap esterns Harry Lime, old school friend and idol of Martins Colonel Calloay, English police officer and observer narrator Anna Schmidt, actress and Limes girl-friend, feigns to be Austrian but is Hungarian Dr. inkler, Limes doctor and present doctor at the accident Colonel Cooler, a friend of Lime Herr Kurtz, a friend of Lime Herr Koch, Limes caretaker and itness of Limes accident Mr. Crabbin, representative of the fictitious British Cultural Relations Society Benjamin Dexter, a fictional novelist Joseph Harbin, a friend of Lime Plot The story is narrated by Calloay ho reconstructs his police files. Rollo Martins travels after the orld ar II to the into four zones divided Vienna to visit his old school friend Harry Lime, ho had invited him to Austria to report on international refugees. hen arriving, Martins finds out that his friend as run over by car and died. At Limes funeral he meets Colonel Calloay ho states that Lime as the orst racketeer in Vienna ho ould have been arrested if he had not been killed. Martins dissents from Calloay because he alays regarded Lime as a hero and as an idol. He cannot prove it, because Martins has to leave Vienna tomorro for lack of money. Fortunately, at his hotel Martins is taken for Benjamin Dexter by Crabbin, therefore he got a hotel room for one eek plus expenses, but he must host a lecture and literary discussion. Thus, he starts his on inquiry at first ith Kurtz ho explains the accident but Martins is not satisfied, he thinks Lime as murdered. Visiting Schmidt, she tells the same as Cooler did, but mentions that even the driver as a friend of Lime. After that, he visits the doctor to question him, but gets no information. At Limes apartment he meets Koch ho reveals that he is a itness ho did not give evidence. He claims that there as a third man hom he could not identify. Martins ants Koch to give evidence but he refuses to do it and outraged. So Martins visits Cooler ho tells the same story as Kurtz and askes him about the third man, but he has not seen a third man. Then he visits Schmidt again and tells her about his latest investigation, so they decide to question Koch again. As they arrived, Koch as murdered, therefore they fled and Martins ent back to his hotel here Calloay as aiting. He tries to escape and as driven to the literary discussion. After the discussion Martins as brought to Calloay. Calloay makes an inquiry about Cooler, Kurtz, Dr. inkler and Koch. Martins tells him about the third man, then Calloay informs him about Limes rackets In those days, only military hospitals ere supplied ith Penicilin in Austria, thus no civilian doctor or hospital ons it. As a result Penicillin as stolen and sold to Australian doctors for much money. Finally, an organisation as founded and penicillin as diluted. The consequences ere that it causes venereal diseases and meningitis. Then he shoed evidences that Lime, Kurtz, Cooler, inkler and Harbin, ho vanished, ere involved. So Martins gets disillusioned and disappointed about Lime and he ants to leave Vienna, but he cannot because of the Austrian police. Both think that Kurtz or third man killed Lime, so he tries to find third man. After the inquiry he visits Schmidt and tells her all about Lime and as leaving her, he meets the third man ho is Lime. He pursues him to an iron kiosk here he vanished, so he informs Calloay. In the meantime Schmidt as to be arrested by the four poers because of her papers. Martins and Calloay find a door in the kiosk ith stairs to the seer system, hich as used for smuggling. Knoing that Lime is alive, Martins makes an appointment ith him at the Praters Great heel here he realises that Limes character totally changed, that he became a man ith no scruples anymore, that he betrays and uses persons, but that he still has certain principles. He is godless man, possessed by evil and tempted by money. His only aim is earning money, he is greedy for money, a p...
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