The Lawless Roads (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

by Graham Greene (Author)

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  Paperback
  1993

  $3.20

  In the late 1930s, Graham Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico and find out how the inhabitants had reacted to the brutal anti-clerical purges of President Calles. His journey took him through the tropical states of Chiapas and Tabasco, where all the churches had been destroyed or closed and the priests driven out or shot; and it provided him with the setting and themes for his novel The Power and the Glory . This book describes his travel experiences in Mexico.

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  Paperback
  1976

  $4.83

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  Paperback
  2002

  $15.72

  In 1938 Graham Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico to discover the state of the country and its people in the aftermath of the brutal anti-clerical purges of President Calles. His journey took him through the tropical states of Chiapas and Tabasco, where all the churches had been destroyed or closed and the priests driven out or shot. The experiences were the inspiration for his acclaimed novel, The Power and the Glory.