First published 2018
Deceit, betrayal, and existential crises abound in this collection of Graham Greene's most acclaimed novels. From a spy's desperate attempt to outrun his past in The Human Factor to a priest's crisis of faith in The Power and the Glory, these stories plunge readers into a shadowy world where right and wrong blur. Greene's characters grapple with weighty questions of morality, identity, and the consequences of their choices, their journeys marked by a brooding, unsettling atmosphere. Beneath the narrative twists lies an exploration of the human condition in all its flawed complexity.
Genres: fiction, literary-fiction, 20th-century, mystery, psychological-thriller
Vibes: atmospheric, brooding, thought-provoking
Tropes: moral-ambiguity, unreliable-narrator
Period: 20th-Century
659 pages · Kindle Edition · Open Road Media