Power and the Glory, the (Greene) - Softcover

Cannan, Dennis; Bost, Pierre

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0573614237 ISBN 13: 9780573614231

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc., 2011

Synopsis

Tragedy

Denis Cannan and Pierre Bost, adapted from Graham Greene.

Characters: 28 male, 9female, extras

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In the revolutionary days of Mexico a priest decides to stay with his people in disguise rather than escape. It is little consolation, however. For wherever the priest goes with the Mass and the Sacraments, the police are sure to follow executing those who harbored him. Though he is a humanly weak priest, with a past of many sins, he has moments of strength. He steals a bottle of wine from a drunken official, and ends in prison. Released, he travels to another province where he is given food and clothes, and the people make religious processions. At ease again, he slips back into his old pleasures. At the moment of his escape, however, he chooses to go instead to a dying man. Here he is ambushed, and executed. "A wonderful play. . . . Straight into the heart of a sublime theme."-N. Y. Times.

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Review:

Named one of the 100 best novels of the 20th century by"Time"magazine
Greene s masterpiece . . . The energy and grandeur of his finest novel derive from the . . . will toward compassion. . . . It succeeds . . . resoundingly. John Updike, from the Introduction
Brilliant... a splendid achievement. "The Atlantic Monthly"
[Greene] captured the conscience of the twentieth century like no other. William Golding, Nobel Prize winning author of"Lord of the Flies"
No serious writer of [the twentieth] century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination as did Graham Greene. "Time"
Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature. John le Carre
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Named one of the 100 best novels of the 20th century by Time magazine

"Greene's masterpiece . . . The energy and grandeur of his finest novel derive from the . . . will toward compassion. . . . It succeeds . . . resoundingly." --John Updike, from the Introduction

"Brilliant . . . a splendid achievement." --The Atlantic Monthly

"[Greene] captured the conscience of the twentieth century like no other." --William Golding, Nobel Prize-winning author of Lord of the Flies

"No serious writer of [the twentieth] century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination as did Graham Greene." --Time

"Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature." --John le Carre

Book Description:

'Graham Greene's masterpiece' John Updike

About this edition

• Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0573614237
• ISBN 13: 9780573614231
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96