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The power and the glory.

Author: Graham Greene; R W B Lewis; Peter J Conn
Publisher: New York, Viking Press [1970]
Series: The Viking critical library
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Set in Mexico during the era of anticlerical violence by revolutionaries, the story depicts the martyrdom of the last Roman Catholic priest, who is being hunted by a police lieutenant. The "whisky priest" is a degraded alcoholic who has broken most of his vows but who nevertheless insists upon performing his duties until the very end, when he is finally captured and executed.
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Genre/Form: Christian fiction
Fiction
Named Person: Graham Greene
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Graham Greene; R W B Lewis; Peter J Conn
ISBN: 0670018066 9780670018062 0670569801 9780670569809
OCLC Number: 128223
Description: xix, 552 p. facsim., map 20 cm.
Contents: The power and the glory: the text / Graham Greene --
The power and the glory / Francois Mauriac --
The structure of the power and the glory / Karl Patten --
Act and scene in the power and the glory / Peter J. Conn --
Graham Greene: style and stylistics in the power and the glory / Dominick P. Consolo --
The force of caricature / Richard Hoggart --
Graham Greene: the best and the worst / Morton Dauwen Zabel --
The "trilogy" / R. W. B. Lewis --
Graham Greene / Laurence Lerner --
Graham Greene: a hint of an explanation / Barbara Seward --
Graham Greene: "I suffer, therefore I am" / Sean O'Faolain --
The source: selections from Another Mexico / Graham Greene --
(Creative art and the religious mind:) selections from Collected essays / Graham Greene --
Graham Greene on the job of the writer: an interview / Graham Greene and Philip Toynbee --
Two scenes from the television adaptation of The power and the glory / Dale Wasserman --
The hound of heaven / Francis Thompson --
Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter.
Series Title: The Viking critical library
Responsibility: Text and criticism edited by R. W. B. Lewis and Peter J. Conn.

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Set in Mexico during the era of anticlerical violence by revolutionaries, the story depicts the martyrdom of the last Roman Catholic priest, who is being hunted by a police lieutenant. The "whisky priest" is a degraded alcoholic who has broken most of his vows but who nevertheless insists upon performing his duties until the very end, when he is finally captured and executed.

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