ABSTRACT
Henry Graham Greene’s range was immense, and he succeeded in gaining both critical acclaim and a vast international readership. He produced novels, tales, plays, poems, film-scripts, critical and political essays, autobiographical works, travel books, biographical studies. Greene’s work appeared in newspapers and magazines, on radio and television, in the theatre and the cinema. He was an astute publicist, a resourceful entertainer and an indefatigable moral historian. The distinctive linguistic intelligence and humane sensitivity which characterise so much of his work, and which are most fully evident in The Power and the Glory, should ensure that Graham Greene’s wide and appreciative readership will endure for many years to come. In his life and his writings, he epitomised so many large-scale problems and divisions in twentieth-century culture and ideology. His works portray the stresses of modern life in numerous geographical regions: Europe, Africa, Asia, Central and South America.
