PortadaGruposCharlasMásPanorama actual
Buscar en el sitio
Este sitio utiliza cookies para ofrecer nuestros servicios, mejorar el rendimiento, análisis y (si no estás registrado) publicidad. Al usar LibraryThing reconoces que has leído y comprendido nuestros términos de servicio y política de privacidad. El uso del sitio y de los servicios está sujeto a estas políticas y términos.

Resultados de Google Books

Pulse en una miniatura para ir a Google Books.

Cargando...

Brighton, parque de atracciones (1938)

por Graham Greene

Otros autores: Ver la sección otros autores.

MiembrosReseñasPopularidadValoración promediaMenciones
5,1361152,081 (3.73)395
Classic Literature. Fiction. HTML:

Originally published in 1938, Graham Greene's chilling exposé of violence and gang warfare is a masterpiece of psychological realism and often considered Graham Greene's best novel. It is a fascinating study of evil, sin, and the "appalling strangeness of the mercy of God," a classic of its kind.

Set in Brighton, England, among the criminal rabble, the book depicts the tragic career of a seventeen-year-old boy named Pinkie whose primary ambition is to lead a gang to rival that of the wealthy and established Colleoni. Pinkie is devoid of compassion or human feeling, despising weakness of the spirit or of the flesh. Responsible for the razor slashes that killed Kite and also for the death of Hale, he is the embodiment of calculated evil. As a Catholic, however, he is convinced that his retribution does not lie in human hands.

He is therefore not prepared for Ida Arnold, Hale's avenging angel. Ida, whose allegiance is with life, the here and now, has her own ideas about the circumstances surrounding Hale's death. For the sheer joy of it she takes up the challenge of bringing the infernal Pinkie to an earthly kind of justice.

When finished, the listener is sure to ponder some lofty moral issues to which Greene, a Catholic writer, withholds easy judgments.… (más)

Cargando...

Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará.

Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.

» Ver también 395 menciones

Inglés (110)  Sueco (2)  Alemán (1)  Holandés (1)  Vietnamita (1)  Todos los idiomas (115)
Mostrando 1-5 de 115 (siguiente | mostrar todos)
I enjoyed visiting Brighton on my one trip to England, so I liked being reminded of that town through this book. I also like Greene's writing style, from all the other books of his I've read so far.
This one is a murder-mystery/crime thriller, with a citizen sleuth, a middle-aged woman named Ida who spends some time hanging out with a nice stranger just shortly before that man dies. She realizes that the story about that man's seemingly natural death doesn't tally with what she knows of the victim's last hours, and when the police ignore her concerns she sets out to investigate on her own. An unlikely avenging angel, she nonetheless pursues a gang of toughs whose gang is going through the power struggles and adjustments that follow a regime change. In addition to the adventure/thriller elements, this book also explores the nature of mortal sin and good/evil, looking at the many complications and gradations that make it hard to hold to strict, black and white concepts of good and evil, while still also showing how maybe evil is still real, no matter how complicated real life can be.
( )
  JBarringer | Dec 15, 2023 |
A boring and tedious read. ( )
  Novak | Sep 6, 2023 |
Bleak, but brilliant. ( )
  TheScribblingMan | Jul 29, 2023 |
I just couldn't be made to care. Not for me. ( )
  judeprufrock | Jul 4, 2023 |
A story about someone who seemed ok, and then didn't. I think I learned much about people from this almost forgotten book. ( )
  mykl-s | Apr 12, 2023 |
Mostrando 1-5 de 115 (siguiente | mostrar todos)
This is no book for those who would turn delicate noses away from the gutters and sewers of life; but there is nothing that could give the faintest gratification to snickerers. If it is as downright as surgery, it is, also, as clean as a clinic. There is not an entirely admirable character in it; but there is not one that can, by any chance, be forgotten nor one that could be set aside as untrue to life.
 
Why does this bleak, seething and anarchic novel still resonate? Its energy and power is that of the rebellious adolescent, foreshadowing the rise of the cult of youth in the latter part of the 20th century. And while Catholicism may have given way to secularism, Pinkie ultimately realises that hell isn't located in some distant realm: it's right here, present on earth, all around us.
 
Greene's entertainments look better now than most of his pretentious and overpraised 'serious novels'. One of the few British crime novels of the time which matched the modernist tone of the Americans, while remaining completely authentic.
añadido por Cynfelyn | editarThe Guardian, Mike Phillips (May 31, 2000)
 

» Añade otros autores (3 posibles)

Nombre del autorRolTipo de autor¿Obra?Estado
Greene, Grahamautor principaltodas las edicionesconfirmado
Buckley, PaulDiseñador de cubiertaautor secundarioalgunas edicionesconfirmado
Byfield, GrahamArtista de Cubiertaautor secundarioalgunas edicionesconfirmado
Carey, JohnIntroducciónautor secundarioalgunas edicionesconfirmado
Coetzee, J.M.Introducciónautor secundarioalgunas edicionesconfirmado
Cronin, BrianArtista de Cubiertaautor secundarioalgunas edicionesconfirmado
Grandfield, GeoffIlustradorautor secundarioalgunas edicionesconfirmado
Joffe, RowanPrólogoautor secundarioalgunas edicionesconfirmado
Larsen, Magda HenrietteTraductorautor secundarioalgunas edicionesconfirmado
Lindegren, ErikTraductorautor secundarioalgunas edicionesconfirmado
Lladó Bausili, JuanTraductorautor secundarioalgunas edicionesconfirmado
Pade, HenningTraductorautor secundarioalgunas edicionesconfirmado
Rojahn-Deyk, BarbaraTraductorautor secundarioalgunas edicionesconfirmado
Sibon, MarcelleTraductorautor secundarioalgunas edicionesconfirmado
Tainio, TaunoTraductorautor secundarioalgunas edicionesconfirmado
Vallandro, LeonelTraductorautor secundarioalgunas edicionesconfirmado
Vernet, Maria TeresaTraductorautor secundarioalgunas edicionesconfirmado
West, SamuelNarradorautor secundarioalgunas edicionesconfirmado
Debes iniciar sesión para editar los datos de Conocimiento Común.
Para más ayuda, consulta la página de ayuda de Conocimiento Común.
Título canónico
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés. Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Título original
Títulos alternativos
Información procedente del Conocimiento común alemán. Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Fecha de publicación original
Personas/Personajes
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés. Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Lugares importantes
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés. Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Acontecimientos importantes
Películas relacionadas
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés. Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Epígrafe
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés. Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
'This were a fine reign:
To do ill and not hear of it again.'
THE WITCH OF EDMONTON
Dedicatoria
Primeras palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés. Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him.
Hale knew they meant to murder him before he had been in Brighton three hours. [1956 ed.]
Citas
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés. Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
[...] young men kept on arriving in huge motoring coats accompanied by small tinted creatures, who rang like expensive glass when they were touched but who conveyed an impression of being as sharp and tough as tin.
Últimas palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés. Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
(Haz clic para mostrar. Atención: puede contener spoilers.)
Aviso de desambiguación
Editores de la editorial
Blurbistas
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés. Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Idioma original
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés. Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
DDC/MDS Canónico
LCC canónico

Referencias a esta obra en fuentes externas.

Wikipedia en inglés

Ninguno

Classic Literature. Fiction. HTML:

Originally published in 1938, Graham Greene's chilling exposé of violence and gang warfare is a masterpiece of psychological realism and often considered Graham Greene's best novel. It is a fascinating study of evil, sin, and the "appalling strangeness of the mercy of God," a classic of its kind.

Set in Brighton, England, among the criminal rabble, the book depicts the tragic career of a seventeen-year-old boy named Pinkie whose primary ambition is to lead a gang to rival that of the wealthy and established Colleoni. Pinkie is devoid of compassion or human feeling, despising weakness of the spirit or of the flesh. Responsible for the razor slashes that killed Kite and also for the death of Hale, he is the embodiment of calculated evil. As a Catholic, however, he is convinced that his retribution does not lie in human hands.

He is therefore not prepared for Ida Arnold, Hale's avenging angel. Ida, whose allegiance is with life, the here and now, has her own ideas about the circumstances surrounding Hale's death. For the sheer joy of it she takes up the challenge of bringing the infernal Pinkie to an earthly kind of justice.

When finished, the listener is sure to ponder some lofty moral issues to which Greene, a Catholic writer, withholds easy judgments.

No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca.

Descripción del libro
Resumen Haiku

Biblioteca heredada: Graham Greene

Graham Greene tiene una Biblioteca heredada. Las Bibliotecas heredadas son bibliotecas personales de lectores famosos que han sido compiladas por miembros de Librarything pertenecientes al grupo Bibliotecas heredadas.

Ver el perfil heredado de Graham Greene.

Ver la página de autor de Graham Greene.

Debates activos

Ninguno

Cubiertas populares

Enlaces rápidos

Valoración

Promedio: (3.73)
0.5 1
1 17
1.5 2
2 71
2.5 25
3 214
3.5 91
4 363
4.5 47
5 200

 

Acerca de | Contactar | LibraryThing.com | Privacidad/Condiciones | Ayuda/Preguntas frecuentes | Blog | Tienda | APIs | TinyCat | Bibliotecas heredadas | Primeros reseñadores | Conocimiento común | 202,648,548 libros! | Barra superior: Siempre visible