Brighton Rock

　　《布萊登棒棒糖》以大戰前的英國布萊登地下社會為背景，書中主角是一個年僅十七歲、來自貧民區的男孩品基，卻心狠手辣，殺人不眨眼。他先是誘騙十六歲 的蘿絲為妻，最後又因為他對婚姻的恐懼，而企圖誘騙蘿絲自殺，以換得自己的自由。布萊登棒棒糖是一種印有「布萊登」字樣的硬糖。書中另一主角艾達認為： 「人是不會改變的……就像那些棒棒糖，你吃到最後，還是看得到糖上布萊登的字樣。這就是人性。」

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　　Pinkie Brown, a neurotic teenage gangster wielding a razor blade and a bottle of sulfuric acid, commits a brutal murder – but it does not go unnoticed. Rose, a naive young waitress at a rundown cafe, has the unwitting power to destroy his crucial alibi, and Ida Arnold, a woman bursting with easy certainties about what is right and wrong, has made it her mission to bring about justice and redemption.

　　Set among the seaside amusements and dilapidated boarding houses of Brighton’s pre-war underworld, Brighton Rock by Graham Greene is both a gritty thriller and a study of a soul in torment. A classic of modern literature, it maps out the strange border between piety and savagery.

　　This beautiful Macmillan Collector’s Library edition of Brighton Rock features an introduction by the poet, biographer and editor, Professor Richard Greene.

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葛雷安．葛林（Graham Greene）

　　生於一九○四年。牛津大學貝利奧爾學院畢業之後，在 《泰晤士報》做過四年副編輯。他的第四本小說《史坦堡特快車》使他聲譽大起。除了寫出很多本長篇小說外，葛林也寫了好幾本短篇小說集、四本遊記、六齣舞台 劇、三本自傳《小說家的人生》、《逃避途徑》、《我自己的世界》（出版於他逝世之後）兩本傳記以及四本童書。他也為報章雜誌寫過幾百篇雜文、影評、書評， 有些收錄在《沉思錄》和《黑暗中的早晨》文集裡。他寫的長篇和短篇小說很多都拍成了電影，其中《黑獄亡魂》還寫成電影腳本。葛雷安?葛林曾獲功績勳章以及 榮譽侍從榮銜。一九九一年四月去世。

　　Graham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the Spectator. He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991.