Two journals from Graham Greene's travels in West and Central Africa — a wartime Atlantic convoy and, more centrally, a 1959 trip to a Belgian Congo leper colony — kept while he was forming the novel that became A Burnt-Out Case.
Books mentioned in In Search of a Character (44)
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad: “Reading Conrad - the volume called Youth for the sake of The Heart of Darkness - the first time since I abandoned him about 1932.”
England in the Seventeenth Century by David Ogg: “I wonder who it was reading David Ogg's England in the Seventeenth Century in Brazzaville airport?”
Grey Eminence by Aldous Huxley: “Whittemore has on board Rowse's Tudor Cornwall, Huxley's Grey Eminence, Laurence Binyon's poems.”
Tudor Cornwall by A. L. Rowse: “Whittemore has on board Rowse's Tudor Cornwall, Huxley's Grey Eminence, Laurence Binyon's poems.”
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens: “...F., the young RNVR officer who seems likely to prove my drinking companion, has brought The Pickwick Papers.”
The Social Stigma of Leprosy by Eugene Kellersbergen: “Read a strange, terrible pamphlet 'The Social Stigma of Leprosy', by Doctor Eugene Kellersbergen.”
Wanderings in South America by Charles Waterton: “...Father and Son, by Edmund Gosse The Mask of Dimitrios, by Ambler Wanderings in South America, by Waterton...”
Father and Son by Edmund Gosse: “"Father and Son, by Edmund Gosse" — packing list of books brought on the trip.”
The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler: “Began reading The Mask of Dimitrios, by Eric Ambler.”
The Knapsack by Herbert Read: “...The Knapsack, Herbert Read's anthology Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse...”
The Golden Treasury by Francis Turner Palgrave: “...Golden Treasury Broadway Book of English Verse Penguin Selection of Browning...”
Kindness in a Corner by T. F. Powys: “Blackwell's one-volume Shakespeare Kindness in a Corner, by T.”
The Spanish Farm by R. H. Mottram: “Books in the chief steward's cabin included a Dunsany, Silone's Fontamara and Mottram's Spanish Farm.”
Fontamara by Ignazio Silone: “Books in the chief steward's cabin included a Dunsany, Silone's Fontamara and Mottram's Spanish Farm.”
The Ocean by James Hanley: “Read Hanley's The Ocean - an open-boat story.”
Victory by Joseph Conrad: “One day I will again read Victory.”
David Livingstone by C. Silvester Horne: “Found an old acquaintance in the purser, who had been in the David Livingstone when I went to Liberia years ago.”
Parents and Children by Ivy Compton-Burnett: “Finished Parents and Children, by Compton-Burnett.”
Life of Tolstoy by Aylmer Maude: “Powys Life of Tolstoy, by Aylmer Maude...”
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell: “North and South, by Mrs Gaskell...”
Miss Mackenzie by Anthony Trollope: “...Sir Harry Hotspur, and Miss Mackenzie.”
Herr Witch Doctor by Sarah Gertrude Millin: “Read Herr Witch Doctor, by Sarah Gertrude Millin.”
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens: “"Now started re-reading David Copperfield." / "March 8th, Brazzaville Finishing David Copperfield."”
The Voyage of the Nona by Hilaire Belloc: “...spinning out The Path to Rome which I don't dislike as much as when I was a boy (it is more forgivable than the Voyage of the Nona, for Belloc was a young man...).”
The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc: “A quiet morning, spinning out The Path to Rome which I don't dislike as much as when I was a boy.”
The Golden Ass by Apuleius: “...a memory of Fotis stirring the pot in The Golden Ass.”
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare: “...like that of a proud schoolmaster watching a school performance of The Merchant of Venice.”
La Fête Espagnole: “Reading a book which moves me, La Fête Espagnole, by Rey.”
La Forêt Vierge by Silvagni: “Reading a difficult (for me) odd book La Forêt Veuve by Silvagni about Brazil.”
Le Bel Aujourd'hui by Julien Green: “Reading the last volume of Julian Green's journal - Le Bel Aujourd'hui - with growing irritation.”
Le Repos du Guerrier by Christiane Rochefort: “The author is said to have been depicted as the principal character in the French best-selling novel Le Repos du Guerrier.”
The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham: “The L.'s had lent me The Tiger in the Smoke - a most absurd unreal story by Margery Allingham.”
Petit Cyclone by Airey Neave: “...a book has been written about her by an Englishman, Airey Neave, called in French Petit Cyclone.”