- Fiction, West africa in fiction, Colonial administrators in fiction, Catholics
Focusing on a British police officer in an unnamed West African colony, this novel attempts to show, along with the socially restricted lives of colonists in Africa, the effects of sin on a devout catholic. After sending his unhappy wife to South Africa at her request the officer begins an affair with a young woman, a survivor of a shipwreck and now widowed but is unable to end the relationship when his wife returns even though he feels he is committing a mortal sin.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Graham Greene
- First published
- 1948
- Pages
- 306
- Publisher
- Compass Books, William Heinemann Ltd, Penguin Random House
- Editions
- 94
- Language
- French, und, Chinese, heb
- ISBN
- 9780670000708
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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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