![]() ![]() This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by Christopher Hitchens.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. ![]() It is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire of government intelligence that still resonates today. Then his stories start coming disturbingly true.įirst published in 1959 against the backdrop of the Cold War, Our Man in Havana remains one of Graham Greene's most widely read novels. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Charles Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. MI6's man in Havana is Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. ![]()
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