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Plot summary. The story begins in a prison in occupied France during the Second World War. It is decreed that one in every ten prisoners is to be executed; lots are drawn to decide who will die. One of the men chosen is a rich lawyer. He offers all his money to anyone who will take his place. One man agrees.
- Graham Greene
- 1985
1. Jan. 1985 · 3.73. 4,858 ratings457 reviews. During World War II a group of men is held prisoner by the Germans, who determine that three of them must die. This is the story of how one of those men trades his wealth for his life—and lives to pay for his act in utterly unexpected ways.
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29. März 1985 · Kirkus Prize. winner. National Book Award Finalist. Four men who meet as college roommates move to New York and spend the next three decades gaining renown in their professions—as an architect, painter, actor and lawyer—and struggling with demons in their intertwined personal lives.
- Kirkus Reviews
Graham Greene's The Tenth Man is one of his most startling and unexpected major novels. Set in wartime occupied France, it is about a man who buys a life in a moment of fear. It begins in...
- Graham Greene
- Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1985
- braille
5. Apr. 2022 · The Tenth Man: A Novel. Graham Greene. Simon and Schuster, Apr 5, 2022 - Fiction - 160 pages. From the author of the classics Brighton Rock and The Power and the Glory, a morally complex...
- Graham Greene
- Simon and Schuster, 2022
- reissue
- The Tenth Man: A Novel
An unforgettable and suspenseful novel that “deserves a place at the top of the list of world’s best literature inspired by the war” (Houston Chronicle), The Tenth Man will haunt you long after you turn the final page. Mehr lesen. ISBN-10. 9780671019099. ISBN-13. 978-0671019099. Auflage. Reprint. Herausgeber. Washington Square Press.
- Taschenbuch
2. Mai 2012 · This recently recovered novel, written in 1944, focuses on Jean-Louis Charlot, who returns to his home after a four-year absence knowing that strangers live there and that one moment of panic has cost him the right to call it his own
