He converted to Catholicism in 1926, an edifying decision, and reported on religious persecution in Mexico in 1938 in The Lawless Roads, which served as a background for his famous The Power and the Glory, one of several "Catholic" novels ( Brighton Rock, The Heart of the Matter, The End of the Affair ). In 1935, he trekked across northern Liberia, his first experience in Africa, told in A Journey Without Maps (1936). He began to attract notice as a novelist with his fourth book, Orient Express, in 1932. Educated at Berkhamsted School and Balliol College, Oxford, he started his career as a sub-editor of the London Times. ( The Daily Telegraph, London)Ībout the Author Graham Greene (1904-1991), whose long life nearly spanned the length of the twentieth century, was one of its greatest novelists.
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To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Charles Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. Book Synopsis MI6's man in Havana is Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity.
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