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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Man_Within > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Man_Within.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Within > Source revision: 1354743642 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|1929 novel by Graham Greene}} {{More citations needed|date=October 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{infobox book | | name = The Man Within | title_orig = | translator = | image = image:ManWithin.JPG | caption = First edition | author = [Graham Greene](/source/Graham_Greene) | cover_artist = | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = | genre = [Historical novel](/source/Historical_novel) | publisher = [William Heinemann](/source/Heinemann_(book_publisher)) | release_date = [1929](/source/1929_in_literature) | media_type = [Hardcover](/source/Hardcover) (first edition) | pages = | isbn = | preceded_by = | followed_by = | external_url = https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/graham-greene/the-man-within }} '''''The Man Within''''' (1929) is the [first novel](/source/first_novel) by author [Graham Greene](/source/Graham_Greene).{{Cite journal |last=Hargreaves |first=Phylis |date=Autumn 1957 |title=Graham Greene: A Selected Bibliography |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26277068 |journal=[Modern Fiction Studies](/source/Modern_Fiction_Studies) |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=269–280 |issn=0026-7724 |via=JSTOR}} It tells the story of Francis Andrews, a reluctant smuggler who betrays his colleagues, and the aftermath of his betrayal. It is Greene's first published novel. (Two earlier attempts at writing novels were never published, but a book of poetry, ''[Babbling April](/source/Babbling_April)'', was published in 1925, while Greene was a student at [Balliol College](/source/Balliol_College), [Oxford](/source/Oxford)). The title is taken from a sentence in [Thomas Browne](/source/Thomas_Browne)'s ''[Religio Medici](/source/Religio_Medici)'': 'There's another man within me that's angry with me.' Greene, in his preface to the Penguin paperback edition of the book, derides the book as hopelessly romantic. ==Characters== The central characters are Francis Andrews; Elizabeth, a girl he meets shortly after the man she lives with dies; and Carlyon, the captain of the [smuggling](/source/smuggling) boat whom Andrews has betrayed by writing a letter informing the [customs](/source/customs) officers of the time that the boat will land. ==Themes== The key themes in the novel are betrayal and a [Freudian](/source/Freudian) relationship between the protagonist Andrews and his deceased father. ==Plot summary== The story begins with Andrews fleeing his fellow smugglers after a battle with the customs officials that ended with one of the customs officials dead. He stumbles upon an isolated cottage which is the home of Elizabeth. The man whom she lived with has recently died. Andrews helps protect Elizabeth from the neighbors who consider her to be a woman of loose moral character (the novel is silent about whether their view is justified or not). After encountering Carlyon, the head of the smugglers, in the fog, Andrews returns to the cottage where Elizabeth persuades him that he should testify at the trial of the smugglers at the [Assizes](/source/Assizes) in Lewes. Andrews travels to Lewes and gives his testimony in court despite being scorned by the other witnesses for the prosecution as a [Judas](/source/Judas_Iscariot) figure. The trial ends with the smugglers being acquitted and their pledging to revenge themselves on Andrews by hurting Elizabeth. Andrews returns to Elizabeth's cottage, tells her of the danger. She sends him to the well to fetch water, and while he is gone, he discovers that one of the smugglers has come to the cottage. He runs to get help, but when he returns, he discovers that Elizabeth has killed herself while being attacked by one of the smugglers. Carlyon is sitting waiting for him. After realizing that the only way to betray his father is to hurt himself, Andrews tells Carlyon to leave and that he will take the blame for Elizabeth's death. ==Film, TV or theatrical adaptations== In 1947, a film version, ''[The Man Within](/source/The_Man_Within_(film))'', was made of the novel (called ''The Smugglers'' in the United States) starring [Ronald Shiner](/source/Ronald_Shiner), [Michael Redgrave](/source/Michael_Redgrave) as Carlyon and [Richard Attenborough](/source/Richard_Attenborough) as Andrews. == References == {{Reflist}} ==External links== *{{StandardEbooks|Standard Ebooks URL=https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/graham-greene/the-man-within}} *{{IMDb title|qid=Q7750000|title=The Man Within}} {{Graham Greene}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Man Within}} Category:Novels by Graham Greene Category:British novels adapted into films Category:1929 British novels Category:1929 English-language novels Category:Novels set in Sussex Category:Heinemann (publisher) books Category:1929 debut novels {{1920s-hist-novel-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [The Man Within](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Within) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Within?action=history)). 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