England Made Me (novel)

England Made Me is an early novel [ [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/graham-greene/england-made-me.htm Fantastic Fiction] ] by Graham Greene [ [http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/20/specials/greene-well.html New York Times] ] . It was first published in 1935 and has also been known as "The Shipwrecked".

It is set in Stockholm and concerns the travails of never-do-well Anthony Farrant who finds himself working as a bodyguard to a dubious Swedish financier. In typical Greene fashion, the seedy antihero wrestles with his conscience as murky moral dilemmas begin to trouble even his disreputable soul.

The New Statesman, in its review, said that "Greene arouses responses of curiosity and attention comparable to those set up by Malraux, Faulkner and Hemingway" while the Daily Telegraph termed him never less than "wonderfully readable". The New York Times concluded its review by asserting that "Too often the author of "England Made Me" seems to be shadow-boxing, not delivering the full punch. But the story is skillfully fabricated, and the suspense so well maintained that any one who starts it is certain to go to the end."

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