"I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused," Graham Greene's narrator Fowler remarks of Alden Pyle, the eponymous "Quiet American" of what is perhaps the most controversial novel of his career. Pyle is the brash young idealist sent out by Washington on a mysterious miss[...]
A National Trust guidebook covering history, horticulture, garden history, history of art, architecture, social history, natural environment and conservation.[...]