Book Details
⚡️Book Title : The Power and the Glory
⚡Book Author : Graham Greene
⚡Page : 222 pages
⚡Published February 25th 2003 by Penguin Books (first published 1940)
The Power and the Glory - In a poor, remote section of Southern Mexico, the paramilitary group, the Red Shirts have taken control. God has been outlawed, and the priests have been systematically hunted down and killed. Now, the last priest is on the run. Too human for heroism, too humble for martyrdom, the nameless little worldly whiskey priest is nevertheless impelled toward his squalid Calvary as much by his own compassion for humanity as by the efforts of his pursuers. In his introduction, John Updike calls The Power and the Glory, Graham Greenes masterpiece. The energy and grandeur of his finest novel derive from the will toward compassion, an ideal communism even more Christian than Communist.
The Power and the Glory
In a poor, remote section of Southern Mexico, the paramilitary group, the Red Shirts have taken control. God has been outlawed, and the priests have been systematically hunted down and killed. Now, the last priest is on the run. Too human for heroism, too humble for martyrdom, the nameless little worldly whiskey priest is nevertheless impelled toward his squalid Calvary as much by his own compassion for humanity as by the efforts of his pursuers. In his introduction, John Updike calls The Power and the Glory, Graham Greenes masterpiece. The energy and grandeur of his finest novel derive from the will toward compassion, an ideal communism even more Christian than Communist.
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