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The Man Within

by Graham Greene

The Man Within (1929) is the first novel by author Graham Greene. It tells the story of Francis Andrews, a reluctant smuggler who betrays his colleagues, and the aftermath of his betrayal. It is Greene's first published novel. (Two earlier attempts at writing novels were never published, but a book of poetry, Babbling April, was published in 1925, while Greene was a student at Balliol College, Oxford). The title is taken from a sentence in Thomas Browne's Religio Medici: 'There's another man within me that's angry with me.' Greene, in his preface to the Penguin paperback edition of the book, derides the book as hopelessly romantic. The central characters are Francis Andrews; Elizabeth, a girl he meets shortly after the man she lives with dies; and Carlyon, the captain of the smuggling boat whom Andrews has betrayed by writing a letter informing the customs officers of the time that the boat will land. The key themes in the novel are betrayal and a Freudian relationship between the protagonist Andrews and his deceased father. The story begins with Andrews fleeing his fellow smugglers after a battle with the customs officials that ended...

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