May We Borrow Your Husband? (short story collection)

May We Borrow Your Husband?
First edition
Author	Graham Greene
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Short Stories
Publisher	The Bodley Head
Publication date	1967
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	188
ISBN	0140092374

May We Borrow Your Husband? and Other Comedies of the Sexual Life is a collection of short stories by British writer Graham Greene, first published in 1967.^[1] As the title suggests, this collection of twelve stories belongs to what Greene himself often described as entertainments.^[2] The stories are quite diverse, ranging as they do in gender, location and era and in genre, from farce to melodrama to tragedy and occasionally all of those genres at once.^[3]

Stories[]

May We Borrow Your Husband?
Beauty
Chagrin in Three Parts
The Over-night Bag
Mortmain
Cheap in August
A Shocking Accident
The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen
Awful When You Think of It
Doctor Crombie
The Root of All Evil
Two Gentle People

References[]

^ "Explore the British Library". explore.bl.uk.
^ "Greene Thoughts in a Greene Shade". Nytimes.com. 1967-04-30. Retrieved 2015-07-11.
^ Greene, Graham (1967-04-01). "MAY WE BORROW YOUR HUSBAND? by Graham Greene | Kirkus". Kirkusreviews.com. Retrieved 2015-07-11.

v t Works by Graham Greene
Bibliography
Novels	The Man Within (1929) The Name of Action (1930) Rumour at Nightfall (1932) Stamboul Train (1932) It's a Battlefield (1934) England Made Me (1935) (1935) A Gun for Sale (1936) Brighton Rock (1938) The Confidential Agent (1939) The Power and the Glory (1940) The Ministry of Fear (1943) The Heart of the Matter (1948) The Third Man (novella; 1949) The End of the Affair (1951) The Quiet American (1955) Loser Takes All (1955) Our Man in Havana (1958) A Burnt-Out Case (1960) The Comedians (1966) Travels with My Aunt (1969) The Honorary Consul (1973) The Human Factor (1978) Doctor Fischer of Geneva (1980) Monsignor Quixote (1982) The Tenth Man (1985) The Captain and the Enemy (1988) No Man's Land (2005)
Travel books	Journey Without Maps (1936) The Lawless Roads (1939) In Search of a Character (1961) Getting To Know The General: The Story of an Involvement (1984)
Autobiography	A Sort of Life (1971) Ways of Escape (1980) Getting To Know The General: The Story of an Involvement (1984) (1992)
Plays	The Living Room (1953) The Potting Shed (1957) The Complaisant Lover (1959) Carving a Statue (1964) The Return of A. J. Raffles (1975) The Great Jowett (1981) Yes and No (1983) For Whom the Bell Chimes (1983)
Films	Orient Express (1934) (1937) (1940) 21 Days (1940) This Gun for Hire (1942) Ministry of Fear (1944) Brighton Rock (1947) The Fallen Idol (1948) The Third Man (1949) The Heart of the Matter (1953) The End of the Affair (1955) Loser Takes All (1956) Saint Joan (1957) The Quiet American (1958) Our Man in Havana (1959) The Comedians (1967) Travels with My Aunt (1972) The Honorary Consul (1983) The End of the Affair (1999) The Quiet American (2002)
Story collections	Twenty-One Stories (1954) A Sense of Reality (1963) May We Borrow Your Husband? (1967) The Last Word and Other Stories (1990)
Short stories	"The End of the Party" (1929) "Proof Positive" (1930) "The Basement Room" (1936) "Across the Bridge" (1938) "Alas, Poor Maling" (1940) "The Blue Film" (1954) "The Destructors" (1954) "A Shocking Accident" "The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen" "The Last Word"
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