The Heart of the Matter - (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Graham Greene (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Graham Greene centennial 1904-2004"--Cover.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>"<i>Wilson sat on the balcony of the Bedford Hotel with his bald pink knees thrust against the ironwork...</i> <p/>Graham Greene's masterpiece, <b><i>The Heart of the Matter</i><b>, </b></b> tells the story of a good man enmeshed in love, intrigue, and evil in a West African coastal town. Scobie is bound by strict integrity to his role as assistant police commissioner and by severe responsibility to his wife, Louise, for whom he cares with a fatal pity. <p/>When Scobie falls in love with the young widow Helen, he finds vital passion again yielding to pity, integrity giving way to deceit and dishonor--a vortex leading directly to murder. As Scobie's world crumbles, his personal crisis develops the foundation of a story by turns suspenseful, fascinating, and, finally, tragic. <p/>Originally published in 1948, <i><b>The Heart of the Matter</b> </i>is the unforgettable portrait of one man--flawed yet heroic, destroyed and redeemed by a terrible conflict of passion and faith. <b>This Penguin Deluxe Edition features an introduction by James Wood.<br></b><br>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Graham Greene </b>(1904-1991), whose long life nearly spanned the length of the twentieth century, was one of its greatest novelists. Educated at Berkhamsted School and Balliol College, Oxford, he started his career as a sub-editor of <i>The Times of London. </i>He began to attract notice as a novelist with his fourth book, <i>Orient Express, </i>in 1932. In 1935, he trekked across northern Liberia, his first experience in Africa, recounted in <i>A Journey Without Maps </i>(1936). He converted to Catholicism in 1926, an edifying decision, and reported on religious persecution in Mexico in 1938 in <i>The Lawless Roads, </i>which served as a background for his famous <i>The Power and the Glory</i>, one of several "Catholic" novels (<i>Brighton Rock, The Heart of the Matter, The End of the Affair). </i>During the war he worked for the British secret service in Sierra Leone; afterward, he began wide-ranging travels as a journalist, which were reflected in novels such as <i>The Quiet American, Our Man in Havana, The Comedians, Travels with My Aunt, The Honorary Consul, The Human Factor, Monsignor Quixote, </i>and <i>The Captain and the Enemy. </i>In addition to his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, two books of autobiography--<i>A Sort of Life </i>and <i>Ways of Escape</i>--two biographies, and four books for children. He also contributed hundreds of essays and film and book reviews to <i>The Spectator </i>and other journals, many of which appear in the late collection <i>Reflections. </i>Most of his novels have been filmed, including <i>The Third Man</i>, which the author first wrote as a film treatment. Graham Greene was named Companion of Honour and received the Order of Merit among numerous other awards. <p/><b>James Wood</b> is a staff writer at <i>The New Yorker</i>, a visiting lecturer at Harvard, and the author of the national bestseller <i>How Fiction Works</i> and the novel <i>The Book Against God</i>. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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