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The works of the English novelist and dramatist Graham Greene (1904-1991) explore different permutations of morality and amorality in modern society, and often feature exotic settings in different parts of the world. A storyteller with a spare and elegan...

A film actor who has found success in both Canada and the United States, Graham Greene (born ca. 1952) is a full-blood Oneida, born on the Six Nations Reserve in southwestern Ontario in the early 1950s. Graham Greene, one of the most visible Native Ameri...

Graham Greene was a writer who lived his life under the torment of faith. In his fictional world, where evil dominates, good-bad men are put in situations where their individual capacities for evil and good inevitably collide, where what is at stake tran...

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene Born in 1904, Graham Greene grew up in a world where duty, tradition, and moral virtue were primary emphases in a boy’s upbringing. His father, Charles Greene, was headmaster of a well-regarded boarding...

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...

Everyone needs heroes. And because racing drivers risk their lives, are youthful, and often good-looking (the main prerequisites for idolisation by the young), they are often venerated. My six-year-old son, for instance, adores Damon Hill, as do many of his school chums. But...

The most sports-saturated summer in living memory is hotting up: in less than two weeks' time, the 100th Olympic Games will open in Atlanta - perhaps the most extravagant sporting spectacle this planet has ever witnessed. Hundreds of millions will spend the rest of...

In the following essay, Malamet examines the narrative function and symbolic significance of delay, hesitation, and suspense in The Power and the Glory.

Of Mr. Graham Greene alone among contemporary writers one can say without affectation that his breaking silence with a new serious novel is a literary "event." It is eight years since the publication of "The Power and the Glory." During that time he has remained inconspicuous and his reputation has grown huge…. Mr. Greene has long shown an absorbing curiosity in the [existence of Hell]. In "Brighton Rock" he ingeniously gave life to a theological abstraction....

Describing Graham Greene's vision of the human condition in Power and the Glory