Graham Greene''s ''long journey through time'' began in 1904, when he was born into a tribe of Greenes based in Berkhamstead at the public school where his father was headmaster. In <i>A Sort of Life</i> Greene recalls schooldays and Oxford, adolescent encounters with psychoanalysis and Russian roulette, his marriage and conversion to Catholicism, and how he rashly resigned from <i>The Times</i> when his first novel, <i>The Man Within </i>was published in 1929. <i>A Sort of Life</i> reveals, brilliantly and compellingly, a life lived and an art obsessed by ''the dangerous edge of things''.