Graham Greene's novels

 19 chapters, nine 'parts', three 'books' [ wikipedia ] [ goodreads ] [ editions/covers ]   reviews w/spoilers: [ astrofella ]  "If one knew, he wondered, the facts, would one have to feel pity even for the planets? if one reached what they called the heart of the matter?" Henry Scobie Louise Major Henry Scobie – Longtime police deputy commissioner and protagonist of the novel. Louise Scobie – Henry's devout Catholic wife. Catherine Scobie – Deceased daughter of Henry and Louise. Ali – Scobie's longtime African servant. Edward Wilson – New inspector who spies on Major Scobie and is in love with his wife, Louise. Harris – Wilson's housemate 'Dicky' Pemberton – Inspector who commits suicide due to his large debt to Yusef. Helen Rolt – Newly arrived widow who becomes Scobie's mistress. Yusef – Syrian local black marketeer who blackmails Scobie after finding a letter in which he expresses his love for Helen. Tallit – Catholic Syrian, Yusef...

  [ wikipedia ] [ goodreads ] [ editions/covers ]  reviews w/spoilers: [ astrofella ] The Little Duke [ ebook ] Whate’er befall I’ll oft recall that sunlit mountainside: [ lyrics ] Arthur Rowe Book One: The Unhappy Man 1. The Free Mothers 2. Private Inquiries 3. Frontal Assault 4. An Evening with Mrs Bellairs 5. Between Sleeping and Waking 6. Out of Touch 7. A Load of Books Book Two: The Happy Man 1. Conversations in Arcady 2. The Sick Bay Book Three: Bits and Pieces 1. The Roman Death 2. Mopping Up 3. Wrong Numbers Book Four: The Whole Man 1. Journey’s End

    [ wikipedia ] [ goodreads ]  [ editions/covers ] reviews w/spoilers: [ astrofella ] gaseosa soda bottle

 eleven chapters in four parts 'fuelled by Benzedrine, Greene wrote it in six weeks' [ wikipedia ] [ goodreads ] [ editions/covers ]  reviews w/spoilers: [ astrofella ] D L Rose Lord Benditch

  " Look at me. I’ve never changed. It’s like those sticks of rock: bite it all the way down, you’ll still read Brighton. That’s human nature."    31 chapters in seven parts [ wikipedia ]  reviews w/spoilers: [ ModRev ]  [ astrofella ] Whitsun 1938 = 05 June Charles 'Fred' Hale Kolley Kibber Pinkie Brown Ida Arnold Rose Snow's Spicer Colleoni Phil Corkery Cubitt  Dallow Frank Judy Prewitt Kite Crab  

12 chapters in three parts  [ wikipedia ] [ goodreads ] [ editions/covers ] [ sister's pov ] Part 1 Chapter 1 THE WAY TO AFRICA Harvest Festival PART ONE 1 The Way to Africa Harvest Festival Blue Book But there are times of impatience Via Liverpool 2 The Cargo Ship Madeira Ballyhoo Las Palmas Graveyard Dakar The Shape of Africa To the Frontier The Way Back 3 The Home from Home Freetown The City Bar No Screws Unturned The Three Companions Up to Railhead Border Town Freedom to Travel PART TWO 1 Western Liberia The Forest Edge 2 His Excellency the President 3 Into Buzie Country 4 Black Montparnasse PART THREE 1 Mission Station 2 ‘Civilized Man’ 3 The Dictator of Grand Bassa 4 The Last Lap 5 Postscript in Monrovia

 US title: This Gun for Hire eight chapters, 30 subsections [ wikipedia ] [ goodreads ] [ editions/covers ] reviews w/spoilers: [ astrofella ] Raven Jimmy Mather Anne Crowder Willie Davis Sir Marcus Saunders G11 G12 G13 G14 G15 G16 G21 G22 G23 G24 G25 G31 G32 G33 G34 G41 G42 G43 G44 G51 G52 G61 G62 G71 G72 G81 G82 G83 G84 G85