The Heart of the Matter [antikvár]

The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene was born in 1904. On coming down from Balliol College, Oxford, he worked for four years as sub-editor on The Times. His reputation was established by hisfourth növel, Stamboul Train. In 1935 he made a journey across Libéria, described in Journey Without Maps, and on his return was appointed film critic ofthe Spectator. In 1926 he had been received into the Román Catholic Church and visited Mexico in 1938 to report on the religious persecution there. As a result he wrote The Lawless Roads and, later, The Power and the Glory. Brighton Rock was published in 1938, and in 1940 he became literary editor of the Spectator. From 1941 to 1943 he was stationed in Sierra Leone while working for the Foreign Office, an experience that later provided the background for The Heart ofthe Matter (1948). 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 alsó contributed hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Many of his novels and short stories have been filmed. He was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. Graham Greene died in April 1991. Among the many people who paid tribute to him on his death was Kingsley Amis: 'He will be missed all over the world. Until today, he was our greatest living novelist.'