Autobiography   A Sort of Life Graham Greene                   Graham Greene calls his autobiography ‘A Sort of Life’ because unlike a biography ‘an autobiography is selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely’. He finishes his story with the years of failure which followed publication of his first book. He was then only twenty-seven, an early age to end the narrative of a life written at the age of sixty-five. But his reason is that ‘failure is also like death and thus provides for a very satisfactory ending’. And his motive for writing his autobiography, ‘a desire to reduce the chaos of experience to some sort of order, and a hungry curiosity’.                 He writes in his inimitable terse and unaffected style. Book is short, some one hundred and fifty pages. He recalls his childhood spent in Berkhamstead...

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