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Power and the Glory, The

I.	About the Author



II.	Overview



III.	Setting



IV.	Themes and Characters



V.	Literary Qualities



VI.	Social Sensitivity



VII.	Topics for Discussion



VIII.	Ideas for Reports and Papers



IX.	Related Titles and Adaptations

Literature Guide - Power and the Glory, The

Greene, Graham Published 1940

I About the Author

Graham Greene was born October 2, 1904, at Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, the fourth of six children. His exposure to books at an early age fueled his ambitions to travel and to write. After a troubled adolescence, during which he ran away from home and ended up in psychoanalysis, he enrolled at Oxford University, where he studied from 1922 to 1925 and wrote his only collection of poetry, Babbling April (1925). During that time, Vivien Dayrell-Browning, his future wife, wrote to him about an error concerning Catholic beliefs she had noticed in one of his film reviews; her letter triggered his examination of and eventual immersion in Catholic thought. Greene married Dayrell-Browning in 1927. He converted to Catholicism in 1926, and his religion greatly influenced his writing for the next 25 years. The End of the Affair (1951) marked his last novel written from a Catholic perspective. ...

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