Twenty-One Stories, Graham GreeneIn 'The Basement Room' a small boy witnesses an event that blights his whole life. Like the other stories in this book (written between 1929 and 1954), it hinges on the themes that dominate Graham Greene's novelsfear, pity and violence, pursuit, betrayal and man's restless search for salvation. Some of the stories are comicpoor Mr Maling's stomach mysteriously broadcasts all sorts of sounds; others are wryly sada youthful indiscretion catches up with

valiant attempts to break the siege

Into the Night and Where the Dead Go

of what is and what has been and what will be

Bryson de-mythologises his native land - explaining how a dusty desert hamlet with neither woods nor holly became Hollywood

This paperback includes a new preface from the author

to join the CIA

But the mother of modern physics never had to co-lead with Levi Ward

For too long

We can't afford to stay silent

with the time change

Either/Or captures a forging of a self

from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon -- from the beginning of this paragraph to this final sentence