Brighton Rock (Macmillan Collector's Library)

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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Pinkie Brown, un gangster adolescent nevrotic, care are o lama de ras si o sticla de acid sulfuric, comite o crima brutala - dar nu trece neobservata. Rose, o tanara chelnerita naiva, la o cafenea deteriorata, are puterea involuntara de a distruge alibiul sau crucial, iar Ida Arnold, o femeie plina de certitudini usoare despre ceea ce este bine si rau, si-a facut misiunea sa aduca dreptate si rascumparare.