One can only hope to achieve remotely half as much as Graham Greene did in his 86-year lifetime. The journalist, novelist, playwright and civil servant lived through two world wars, so it certainly makes sense that many of his most beloved works deal with life’s greatest moral ambiguities in the context of a perennially tumultuous political landscape.
Following his time at Balliol College, Oxford, Greene converted to Catholicism – a change that would greatly influence his most esteemed works of ‘religious’ fiction. Brighton Rock (1938), The Power and the Glory (1940), The Heart of the Matter (1948) and The End of the Affair (1951) all have an overarching moral conflict at the centre.
