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The Heart of the Matter

The Heart of the Matter

by Graham Greene (Author), Graham Greene (Author)

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    Paperback 2004

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    Paperback 1991

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Synopsis

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOOD. Scobie, a police officer serving in a wartime West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 07 Oct 2004
ISBN 10: 0099478420
ISBN 13: 9780099478423
Book Overview: Winner of the 1948 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and considered one of the best English language novels of the twentieth century.

Media Reviews
The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists, rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings -- V. S. Pritchett * The Times *
Greene was a master of characterisation and this book is no exception * Independent on Sunday *
In a class by himself - the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety -- William Golding * Independent *
A superb storyteller with a gift for provoking controversy * New York Times *
Greene had the sharpest eyes for trouble, the finest nose for human weaknesses, and was pitilessly honest in his observations... For experience of a whole century he was the man within -- Norman Sherry * Independent *
Author Bio
Graham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the Spectator. He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991.