Answer the Questions. 1. What kind of stories did K

1. What kind of stories did K. Mansfield write?

2. What author has she often been compared to?

3. What experience are many of her stories based on?

4. Where did she spend her childhood?

5. When did she begin her literary career?

9.8. Graiiam Greene Graham Greene (1904—1991), an English author, won fame for both serious novels and for lighter books he called «entertain­ments». His entertainments include the detective story «This Gun for Hire» (1936) and the adventure mystery «The Third Man» (1950).

Greene's serious novels describe a world of criminals, mentally disturbed people, and people who have lost faith in God. To Greene, these people are the true «heroes» of our day because they struggle to achieve a kind of inner harmony. Greene implies that although his heroes are detestable in other ways they at least avoid the com­mon fault of false self-satisfaction. For example, in «The Heart of the Matter» (1948), the hero abandons his church, his wife, and society, and commits suicide. But by suffering and by confronting himself, he gains some understanding of truth. Greene's other seri­ous novels include «Brighton Rock» (1938), «The Power and the Glory» (1940), «The End of the Affair» (1951), «А Burnt-Out Case» (1961), «The Honorary Consul» (1973), «The Human Factor» (1978), and «Monsignor Quixote» (1982).

Greene was bom in Berkhampstead, near London. He worked on the editorial staff of The Times (London) from 1926 to 1930. He became a Roman Catholic in 1926. Much of his serious writing deals with moral problems of Catholics. He wrote two autobiogra­phies, «А Sort of Life» (1971) and «Ways of Escape» (1981).