The Power and the Glory

The Power and the Glory, novel by British writer Graham Greene, published in 1940. Classified as one of his four Catholic novels, it is often described as Greene’s finest work. Greene was an experienced traveler, and the setting of this novel derives from time that he spent in Mexico in 1938, reporting on the results of official anticlericalism and persecution of the Roman Catholic Church. The Power and the Glory opens with an Englishman living...