- Fiction in English, Adultery, Male friendship, World War, 1939-1945
"This is a record of hate far more than of love," writes Maurice Bendrix in the opening passages of The End of the Affair, of which he is the narrator. And it is a strange hate indeed that compels him to set down the retrospective account of his adulterous love affair with Sarah Miles - a hate bred of a passion that ultimately lost out to God. Now, a year after Sarah's death, Bendrix seeks to exorcise the persistence of that passion by retrac-ing its obsessive and tortuous course. By the time he has finished, his hatred for both Sarah and her husband, Henry Miles, has shifted to the God who he feels has broken his life - but whose existence he at last bitterly acknowledges. First published in 1951, admired and acclaimed then and since, The End of the Affair is a stunning and endlessly fascinating novel, an unforgettable Graham Greene classic.
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- Author
- Graham Greene
- First published
- 1951
- Pages
- 237
- Publisher
- Celjska Mohorjeva družba, Bechtermünz-Verl., Shi bao wen hua chu ban gong si
- Editions
- 74
- Language
- slv, Portuguese, dan, Russian
- ISBN
- 9787539979410
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“A STORY has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.”
Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer, both of serious Catholic novels, and of thrillers. He was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times. Through 67 years of writing, which included over 25 novels, he explored the conflicting moral and political issues of the modern world. *The Power and the Glory* won the 1941 Hawthornden Prize and *The Heart of the Matter* won the 1948 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the B
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