England Made Me (novel)

First edition (publ. Heinemann)

England Made Me or The Shipwrecked is an early novel [1] by Graham Greene. It was first published in 1935, and was republished as The Shipwrecked in 1953.[2]

It is set in Stockholm (which Greene visited in 1933 to prepare for writing the novel[3]) and concerns the travails of ne'er-do-well Anthony Farrant who finds himself working as a bodyguard to a dubious Swedish financier whose character is loosely inspired by Ivar Kreuger. In typical Greene fashion, the seedy antihero wrestles with his conscience as murky moral dilemmas begin to trouble even his disreputable soul.

  1. ^ Fantastic Fiction
  2. ^ "Books: Early Graham Greene". Time. 19 January 1953.
  3. ^ Greene: A Life in Letters, p. 51