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The legendary master who has been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature 21 times is known as the uncrowned king of the Nobel Prize for Literature! Graham Greene's highly regarded masterpiece is also a highly autobiographical novel. This book contains fanatical love, fanatical hate, fanatical suspicion, fanatical jealousy, fanatical faith, and all the fanatical emotions in love. Regarding love, I think of you again... In London, England during World War II, the writer Morris fell in love with Sarah, the wife of civil servant Henry. An unexpected incident caused Sara to leave without saying goodbye, and Maurice spent two years in hatred and jealousy. Two years later, they met again, and the hot love, hate, suspicion, jealousy, and faith in that relationship once again tortured Morris...

In "Life Was Like This", Green recalls his student days and Oxford years, how he encountered psychoanalysis and Russian roulette in adolescence, his marriage and conversion to Catholicism, and how he hurriedly resigned from The Times after the publication of his first novel to become a professional writer. "Writing 'Life Was Like This'... is essentially a form of psychoanalysis. I have traveled a long distance through time, and I am one of the characters I write about."

What this book tells is not a fictional story about a distant continent, but the real daily life around you and me. We are all more or less like the protagonist, burning ourselves out hysterically and then falling irresistibly into the void. The architect Querrey suffered from a disease - a disease that burned out his passion for life. The limbs are healthy and sound, but the spirit is incomplete; living tiredly while helplessly looking for a way out. He left behind the glitz and hustle and bustle of the city and exiled himself to the jungles of Africa. Facing dilapidation and poverty, he felt happiness and prosperity for the first time in a long time. He thought he was about to recover, but he didn't expect that everything was just a precursor to the coming storm.

Graham Greene divides his works into two categories: "serious novels" and "pleasure novels". "The Power and the Glory" is one of the most famous "serious novels" and one of Green's most highly praised by experts and readers. It is based on the two months the author spent in Mexico in March and April 1938. Five weeks of these two months were spent alone and exhausted traveling between Tabasco and Chiapas in the south for two weeks. Containing un-British Roman Catholic elements while being steeped in Manichean darkness and a faithful depiction of suffering, it can be called Green's most ambitious work.

Graham Greene is one of the most famous British writers of the 20th century. He is extremely pessimistic and world-weary, but he is most concerned about the struggle and redemption of the soul. Green divides his works into two categories: "serious novels" and "entertainment novels". "Brighton Lollipop" is one of the most famous "serious novels". It uses the shell of a gangster-detective novel to stage a spiritual tragedy that explores sin and redemption. "Brighton Lollipop" is Green's first serious work. The so-called serious means that the work explores certain issues in life worth pondering. Greene paid great attention to exploring the crisis of faith and crime in his novels, and his popularity has been enduring.

No wonder he is Marquez's literary idol! Graham Greene is a legendary master who has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature 21 times. "The Human Factor" was hailed by Marquez as a perfect masterpiece. MARQUEZ: Seriously, I love all of Greene's books, but I love "The Human Factor" even more, which is a nearly flawless novel. "The Human Factor" is Green's classic work that explores human nature. It writes about all the possibilities of human nature: cruel, terrifying, indifferent, powerless, innocent, free, kind, compassionate, full of love... And what are the factors that influence the choices we make as a human being? Is it love, friendship, family, work, family, country? Only those who truly understand human nature know how rare it is to always be kind. During the Cold War, British intelligence officer Cashel lived an ordinary life every day: going to and from get off work, walking his dog, spending time with his wife and children, and drinking a glass or two of whiskey in the evening, but he was actually a double agent. Years ago, a Soviet agent rescued his wife and repaid his gratitude by providing intelligence to the Soviet Union. However, the leak of a secret document puts him in danger of being exposed, and he once again has to make a human choice.