• Short Prose

• Type: Short Story
• Length: 8 pages

• Source: The Achilles Statue, Hyde Park, Sculpture

A Little Place off the Edgware Road is a 1947 short story by English author Graham Greene. - AsNotedIn

All the way up the park he was reminded of passion, but you needed money for love. All that a poor man could get was lust. Love needed a good suit, a car, a flat somewhere, or a good hotel. It needed to be wrapped in cellophane. He was aware all the time of the stringy tie beneath the mackintosh, and the frayed sleeves: he carried his body about with him like something he hated.

Places

• Hyde Park, London Craven came up past the Achilles statue in the thin summer rain. It was only just after lighting-up time, but already the cars were lined up all the way to the Marble Arch,
• Marylebone, He came up into the Edgware Road walking fast - the Guardsmen were out in couples, great languid elongated beasts - the bodies like worms in their tight trousers.