Who wrote the novel 'England Made Me'?
England Made Me (novel) England Made Me (novel) England Made Me or The Shipwrecked is an early novel by Graham Greene. It was first published in 1935, and was republished as "The Shipwrecked" in 1953. It is set in Stockholm (which Greene visited in 1933 to prepare for writing the novel) 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. Anthony, in his
England Made Me (novel) arouses responses of curiosity and attention comparable to those set up by Malraux, Faulkner and Hemingway" while "The Daily Telegraph" termed him never less than "wonderfully readable". "The New York Times" concluded its review by asserting that "Too often the author of "England Made Me" seems to be shadow-boxing, not delivering the full punch. But the story is skillfully fabricated, and the suspense so well maintained that any one who starts it is certain to go to the end." It was made into a film in 1973, starring Michael York as Anthony, but the setting was changed to Nazi Germany.