The captain and the enemy
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New York : Penguin Books, 2005.
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0143039296, 9780143039297
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Published
New York : Penguin Books, 2005.
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xxv, 154 pages ; 20 cm.
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English
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0143039296, 9780143039297

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In Graham Greene's final novel a secretive stranger takes Victor Baxter out of a boarding school much like that of Greene's own youth. The "Captain" changes the boy's name to Jim and brings him to London to serve as a surrogate son to a mysterious woman named Liza. Raised in odd, touching circumstances, Jim never comprehends the enduring relationship between the Captain and Liza, and he struggles to understand what love itself is. Although the novel then takes the Captain and Jim into seedy political intrigue in Panama and Nicaragua, it finally returns to the question of what the proofs of human love are. John Auchard's introduction establishes links to Greene's biography as it considers the places in the lost past where themes that preoccupy a character-or a novelist-had their flashes of genesis.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Greene, G., & Auchard, J. (2005). The captain and the enemy . Penguin Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Greene, Graham, 1904-1991 and John. Auchard. 2005. The Captain and the Enemy. Penguin Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Greene, Graham, 1904-1991 and John. Auchard. The Captain and the Enemy Penguin Books, 2005.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Greene, Graham, and John Auchard. The Captain and the Enemy Penguin Books, 2005.

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