The Power and the Glory (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) - Softcover

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Graham Greene (1904-1991), whose long life nearly spanned the length of the twentieth century, was one of its greatest novelists. Educated at Berkhamsted School and Balliol College, Oxford, he started his career as a sub-editor of theLondon Times. He began to attract notice as a novelist with his fourth book,Orient Express, in 1932. In 1935, he trekked across northern Liberia, his first experience in Africa, told inA Journey Without Maps (1936). He converted to Catholicism in 1926, an edifying decision, and reported on religious persecution in Mexico in 1938 inThe Lawless Roads, which served as a background for his famous The Power and the Glory, one of several “Catholic” novels (BrightonRock, The Heart of the Matter, The End of the Affair).During the war he worked for the British secret service in Sierra Leone; afterward, he began wide-ranging travels as a journalist, which were reflected in novels such asThe Quiet American, Our Man in Havana, The Comedians,Travels with My Aunt, The Honorary Consul, The Human Factor,Monsignor Quixote, and The Captain and the Enemy. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, two books of autobiography,A Sort of Life and Ways of Escape, two biographies, and four books for children. He also contributed hundreds of essays and film and book reviews toThe Spectator and other journals, many of which appear in the late collectionReflections. Most of his novels have been filmed, including The Third Man, which the author first wrote as a film treatment. Graham Greene was named Companion of Honour and received the Order of Merit among numerous other awards.

John Updike author of Rabbit, Run and other celebrated works, is a preeminent American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet.