Books like The Last Word and Other Stories

The Last Word is the final published work of Graham Greene's lifetime. Twelve stories handpicked by the man himself dating from the 1920s to the late 1980s, perhaps only because they were previously uncollected, but there isn't a bad story amongst them and some of them are great but perhaps my favourite section of the whole book is the preface in which Greene discusses the origins and why he picked these stories for collection.This is the first time I've tried his short stories so I cannot comment on how representative they are of his whole body of work but the majority lived up to my expectations based on the entertainments of his that I've read. There is the typical Greene investigations of human emotion and his sharp cynicism towards humanity and especially religion and politics, just in short and sometimes very, short story form.The Man Who Stole the Eiffel Tower stands out the most as it is a delightful piece of whimsy, a short story designed to entertain the author as much as the reader, whereas the titular story reflects the direction of Greene's mind in his later years as he battled with his conflicted religious beliefs and mortality.