The Lawless Roads (Twentieth-Century Classics) - Softcover

Greene, Graham

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9780140185805: The Lawless Roads (Twentieth-Century Classics)

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ISBN 10: 0140185801 ISBN 13: 9780140185805

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1993

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In the late 1930s, Graham Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico and find out how the inhabitants had reacted to the brutal anti-clerical purges of President Calles. His journey took him through the tropical states of Chiapas and Tabasco, where all the churches had been destroyed or closed and the priests driven out or shot; and it provided him with the setting and themes for his novel "The Power and the Glory". This book describes his travel experiences in Mexico.

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Book Description:

An account of Greene's travels in 1930s Mexico after the anti-clerical purges which inspired The Power and the Glory.

About the Author:

Graham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the Spectator. He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991.

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