Twenty-One Stories

First edition (publ. Heinemann)

Twenty-One Stories (1954) is a collection of short stories by Graham Greene. All but the last three stories appeared in his earlier 1947 collection Nineteen Stories (one story, "The Other Side Of The Border," was not included in the later collection)^[1]

Stories[]

The collection usually presents the stories in reverse chronological order

1. "The End of the Party" (1929)
2. "The Second Death" (1929)
3. "Proof Positive" (1930)
4. "" (1930)
5. "" (1935)
6. "" (1936)
7. "" (1936)
8. "" (1936)
9. "The Basement Room" (1936) (adapted by the author as The Fallen Idol, a film directed by Carol Reed)
10. "" (1937)
11. "" (1937)
12. "Across the Bridge" (1938) (made into a 1957 film starring Rod Steiger)
13. "" (1939)
14. "The Case for the Defence" (1939)
15. "Alas, Poor Maling" (1940)
16. "" (1940)
17. "" (1941)
18. "" (1948)
19. "The Blue Film" (1954)
20. "" (1954)
21. "The Destructors" (1954)

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