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The Third Man

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1949

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How does Greene’s description of Vienna set the story’s scene as a thriller and a story of moral ambiguity?

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Consider Colonel Calloway. How is he both like and unlike Rollo Martins and Harry Lime?

3.

How is Anna Schmidt more like Lime than Martins is?

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