Brighton Rock (novel)

Brighton Rock
First edition cover
AuthorGraham Greene
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller
Set inBrighton in the 1930s
PublisherWilliam Heinemann Ltd
Publication date
1938
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages361[1]
OCLC3459054
823/.912
LC ClassPZ3.G8319 Br PR6013.R44

Brighton Rock is a novel by Graham Greene, published in 1938 and later adapted for film and theatre. The novel is a murder thriller set in 1930s Brighton. The first of Greene's works to explore Catholic themes and moral issues, its treatment of class privilege and the problem of evil is paradoxical and ambivalent.

  1. ^ Robert H. Miller (2015). Graham Greene: A Descriptive Catalog. University Press of Kentucky. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-8131-5052-9.