The Power and the Glory

Named one of the 100 best novels of the 20th century by"Time"magazine
Greene s masterpiece . . . The energy and grandeur of his finest novel derive from the . . . will toward compassion. . . . It succeeds . . . resoundingly. John Updike, from the Introduction
Brilliant... a splendid achievement. "The Atlantic Monthly"
[Greene] captured the conscience of the twentieth century like no other. William Golding, Nobel Prize winning author of"Lord of the Flies"
No serious writer of [the twentieth] century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination as did Graham Greene. "Time"
Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature. John le Carre
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Named one of the 100 best novels of the 20th century by Time magazine

"Greene's masterpiece . . . The energy and grandeur of his finest novel derive from the . . . will toward compassion. . . . It succeeds . . . resoundingly." --John Updike, from the Introduction

"Brilliant . . . a splendid achievement." --The Atlantic Monthly

"[Greene] captured the conscience of the twentieth century like no other." --William Golding, Nobel Prize-winning author of Lord of the Flies

"No serious writer of [the twentieth] century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination as did Graham Greene." --Time

"Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature." --John le Carre