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The Quiet American
By Graham Greene, introduction by Robert Stone
Penguin Classics, 180 pages, $14 paper
History may repeat itself, and for just that reason this novel, first published 50 years ago, is eerily prophetic–not just about Vietnam but about wars around the world today. Graham Greene’s words about the well-intentioned echo with remarkable power: “God save us from the innocent and the good.”