The Lost Childhood and Other Essays

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The Lost Childhood and Other Essays
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First edition
Author Graham Greene
Cover artistStein
LanguageEnglish
GenreEssay collection
Publisher Eyre & Spottiswoode
Publication date
1951
Publication place United Kingdom

The Lost Childhood and Other Essays is a collection of essays and book reviews by Graham Greene published in 1951. Two of its four parts, Personal Prologue (i.e. The Lost Childhood) and Personal Postscript, comprise seven invaluable pieces of autobiography.

Contents

The part Novels and Novelists collects Greene's more or less professional looks at fellow writers, variously esteemed or deplored or fondly remembered, while Some Characters expands to takes in poets and other artists as well.

Novels and Novelists

Some Characters

Notes and references

  1. Sherry, Norman. The Life of Graham Greene, Volume Three: 1955-1991. Johnathan Cape / Pimlico, 2004. ISBN   1-84413-754-6. p 227