The Captain and the Enemy

The Captain and the Enemy is the last novel published by the English author Graham Greene.

Synopsis

The Captain and the Enemy tells the story of a young boy named Victor Baxter taken away from his boarding school by a stranger to live in London. This stranger is simply known as "the Captain" and he appears mysterious to Victor. In London Victor companions a woman named Liza and tells her any news that happens in the outside world. When Victor reaches manhood, he finally learns the secrets and intelligence of the Captain.^[1][2]

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Works by Graham Greene and their adaptations

Bibliography

Novels

• The Man Within (1929)
• The Name of Action (1930)
• Rumour at Nightfall (1932)
• Stamboul Train (1932)
• It's a Battlefield (1934)
• England Made Me (1935)
• The Bear Fell Free (1935)
• A Gun for Sale (1936)
• Brighton Rock (1938)
• The Confidential Agent (1939)
• The Power and the Glory (1940)
• The Ministry of Fear (1943)
• The Heart of the Matter (1948)
• The Third Man (novella; 1949)
• The End of the Affair (1951)
• The Quiet American (1955)
• Loser Takes All (1955)
• Our Man in Havana (1958)
• A Burnt-Out Case (1960)
• The Comedians (1966)
• Travels with My Aunt (1969)
• The Honorary Consul (1973)
• The Human Factor (1978)
• Doctor Fischer of Geneva (1980)
• Monsignor Quixote (1982)
• The Tenth Man (1985)
• The Captain and the Enemy (1988)
• No Man's Land (2005)

Travel books

• Journey Without Maps (1936)
• The Lawless Roads (1939)
• In Search of a Character (1961)
• Getting to Know the General: The Story of an Involvement (1984)

Autobiography

• A Sort of Life (1971)
• Ways of Escape (1980)
• Getting to Know the General: The Story of an Involvement (1984)
• A World of My Own: A Dream Diary (1992)

Plays

• The Living Room (1953)
• The Potting Shed (1957)
• The Complaisant Lover (1959)
• Carving a Statue (1964)
• The Return of A. J. Raffles (1975)
• The Great Jowett (1981)
• Yes and No (1983)
• For Whom the Bell Chimes (1983)

Story collections

• Twenty-One Stories (1954)
• A Sense of Reality (1963)
• May We Borrow Your Husband? (1967)
• The Last Word and Other Stories (1990)

Short stories

• "The End of the Party" (1929)
• "Proof Positive" (1930)
• "The Basement Room" (1936)
• "Across the Bridge" (1938)
• "Alas, Poor Maling" (1940)
• "The Blue Film" (1954)
• "The Destructors" (1954)
• "A Shocking Accident"
• "The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen"
• "The Last Word"

Films

• Orient Express (1934)
• The Future's in the Air (1937)
• The New Britain (1940)
• 21 Days (1940)
• This Gun for Hire (1942)
• Went the Day Well? (1942)
• Ministry of Fear (1944)
• Brighton Rock (1947)
• The Fallen Idol (1948)
• The Third Man (1949)
• The Heart of the Matter (1953)
• The End of the Affair (1955)
• Loser Takes All (1956)
• Saint Joan (1957)
• The Quiet American (1958)
• Our Man in Havana (1959)
• The Comedians (1967)
• Travels with My Aunt (1972)
• The Human Factor (1979)
• The Honorary Consul (1983)
• Monsignor Quixote (1985)
• The End of the Affair (1999)
• The Quiet American (2002)
• Brighton Rock (2010)

Other

• Brighton Rock (play)
• Shades of Greene

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