Novels by Graham Greene (Book Guide)

Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 27. Chapters: A Burnt-Out Case, A Gun for Sale, Brighton Rock (novel), Doctor Fischer of Geneva, England Made Me (novel), It's a Battlefield, Loser Takes All, Monsignor Quixote, Our Man in Havana, Rumour at Nightfall, Stamboul Train, The Case for the Defence, The Comedians (novel), The Confidential Agent, The End of the Affair, The Heart of the Matter, The Honorary Consul, The Human Factor, The Man Within, The Ministry of Fear, The Name of Action, The Power and the Glory, The Quiet American, The Tenth Man (novel), Travels with My Aunt. Excerpt: The Power and the Glory (1940) is a novel by British author Graham Greene. The title is an allusion to the doxology often added to the end of the Lord's Prayer: "For thine is the kingdom, (and) the power, and the glory, now and forever (or forever and ever), amen." This novel has also been published in the US under the name The Labyrinthine Ways. In 2005, the novel was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels since 1923. The novel tells the story of a Roman Catholic priest in the state of Tabasco in Mexico during the 1930s, a time when the Mexican government, still effectively controlled by Plutarco Elías Calles, strove to suppress the Catholic Church. Revolutionary leaders during the early 20th century tried to destroy the feudalism that had governed social relations in Mexico for four centuries, with a resulting concentration of land and power among the elites and the church. Calles was just one in a line of anti-clerical leaders who sought to undo this feudal system. In Catholic eyes, Mexico formed part of what Pope Pius XI called the Terrible Triangle, along with the other socialist and Communist states of the Soviet Union and Spain. The persecution was especially severe in the province of Tabasco, where the anti-clerical governor Tomás Garrido Canabal had founded and actively encouraged paramilitary groups (called the ¿Red-Shirts¿), often called "fascist" but who considered themselves to be Marxist, and succeeded in closing all the churches in the state; forcing the priests to marry and give up their soutanes. Throughout the book, Greene refers to the border as being to the north, and the sea as being to the south, when in fact the Bay of Campeche is situated north of Tabasco and its border with Chiapas to the south. However, most of the descriptions of travel (usually arduous) and places (usually desolate) are accurate and based on Greene's 1938 journey to Tabasco, which he chronicled in The Lawless Roads. Many years later