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The Heart of the Matter,rch than for those faithful to its tenets. It has been charged that he had, as an advocate of Catholicism, become restless and subversive, lapsing into theological unorthodoxy as his allegiance to the church weakened. The ‘pious’ in his novels — a woman with no more to confess than the abbreviation

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The End of the Affair,he story reflecting the triangular situation in which he was then openly engaged. His passionate affair with Catherine Walston was at its height, her husband discreetly choosing to ignore the liaison as physical relations between the married couple had ended many years previous — just as they had be

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A Burnt-Out Case,ls’.; but in fact, Greene again adopts here a narrative strategy very different from those employed in his previous novels. There the central characters — the hounded priest, Scobie, and Sarah — were all, at least by the end, committed Catholics, struggling in their various ways to live up to the re

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The Comedians, the title. Hounded by the secret police, citizens were tortured or murdered there indiscriminately and, as Greene informs us in the letter prefacing the novel, the atmosphere he described was not fictitious, some of the most macabre scenes in the novel being based on actual events. And lest one ima

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The Honorary Consul,t; but it does not disappear.. Prominent in this novel is the excitement of the chase, a talent he had developed so successfully in the tales of espionage and murder that he termed ‘entertainments’. From the moment that a group of rebels fighting against their country’s corrupt regime moves into a n

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Physiologie/Physiologische Chemie,in for his large feet, but their devotion, their unflinching loyalty, and their high principles clearly win out against the scheming Becky Sharp who had seemed to occupy centre stage. Nor is Becky herself an anti-heroine, Thackeray portraying her as a callous mother, a disloyal wife, and (he hints) a murderess.

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Mobilit?t im Alter und Immobilit?tssyndromnum will indeed be shot, how far Plarr will be drawn into the affair, whether the chief of police will discover the hiding-place in time, and who, if any, will survive. Yet it is enormously to Greene’s credit that the tension generated by the plot is not the motive force of the novel but the vehicle for a far more serious theme.