'A superb storyteller.. he had a talent for depicting local colour, which he gathered at first hand; a keen sense of the dramatic; an eye for dialogue, and skill in pacing his prose' - The New York Times
Affairs, obsessions, ardours, fantasy, myth, legend and dream, fear, pity and violence - this magnificent collection of stories illuminates all corners of the human experience.
Previously published in three volumes –May We Borrow Your Husband?, A Sense of Reality and Twenty-One Stories– these thirty-seven stories reveal Graham Greene in a range of contrasting moods, sometimes cynical and witty, sometimes searching and philosophical. Each one confirms V. S. Prischett's statement that Greene is a 'master of storytelling'.
'One of the most important British writers of the twentieth century... he brought something undeniably new to fiction' - Daily Telegraph
