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This nostalgia for life below the level of the brain explains why so sensitive, religious a man as Graham Greene is preoccupied almost exclusively with the physical and spiritual underworld. Born in 1904 (his father was headmaster of Berkhampstead School, Robert Louis Stevenson was a distant relation), bookish, retiring young Greene finished his education at Oxford's scholarly Balliol College. After that he ran through a succession of newspaper jobs, plugged away at his novels in his spare time. The Man Within, the first book he thought good enough to submit, so delighted the publishing house of Heinemann that...
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