The heart of the matter / Graham Greene.
By: Greene, Graham [author]
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BookPublisher: Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1980 1971 1962Description: 271 pages ; 19 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0140017895.Subject(s): Colonial administrators -- Fiction | British -- Africa -- Fiction | Married people -- Fiction | Catholics -- Fiction | Adultery -- Fiction | Africa, West -- FictionDDC classification: 823.91
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Store Item | 823.91 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00027271 | ||
| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Store Item | 823.91 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00027266 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In this widely acclaimed modern classic, Graham Greene delves deep into character to tell the dramatic, suspenseful story of a good man's conflict between passion and faith. A police commissioner in a British-governed, war-torn West African state, Scobie is bound by the strictest integrity and sense of duty both for his Colonial responsibilities and for his wife, whom he deeply pities but no longer loves. Passed over for a promotion, he is forced to borrow money in order to send his despairing wife away on a holiday. When in her absence he develops a passion for a young widow, the scrupulously honest Catholic finds himself giving way to deceit and dishonor. Enmeshed in love and intrigue, he will betray everything he believes in, with tragic consequences. The Heart of the Matter is one of Graham Greene's most enduring and tragic novels.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Born in 1904, Graham Greene was the son of a headmaster and the fourth of six children. Preferring to stay home and read rather than endure the teasing at school that was a by-product of his father's occupation, Greene attempted suicide several times and eventually dropped out of school at the age of 15. His parents sent him to an analyst in London who recommended he try writing as therapy. He completed his first novel by the time he graduated from college in 1925.Greene wrote both entertainments and serious novels. Catholicism was a recurring theme in his work, notable examples being The Power and the Glory (1940) and The End of the Affair (1951). Popular suspense novels include: The Heart of the Matter, Our Man in Havana and The Quiet American. Greene was also a world traveler and he used his experiences as the basis for many books. One popular example, Journey Without Maps (1936), was based on a trip through the jungles of Liberia.
Greene also wrote and adapted screenplays, including that of the 1949 film, The Third Man, which starred Orson Welles. He died in Vevey, Switzerland in 1991.
(Bowker Author Biography)