The Heart of the Matter

✍ Scribed by Graham Greene

• Publisher: Vintage
• Year: 1948
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 258 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1407086626

✦ Synopsis

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Kindle Edition, 288 pages
Published 1948
Vintage (2010)
Anthony Burgess- Best in English (1939-1983)
Modern Library 100 Best Novels (1900-1998)
Time's List of the 100 Best Novels
Introduction by: James Woods
In a British colony in West Africa, Henry Scobie is a pious and righteous man of modest means enlisted with securing borders. But when he’s passed over for a promotion as commissioner of police, the humiliation hits hardest for his wife, Louise. Already oppressed by the appalling climate, frustrated in a loveless marriage, and belittled by the wives of more privileged officers, Louise wants out.

Feeling responsible for her unhappiness, Henry decides against his better judgment to accept a loan from a black marketeer to secure Louise’s passage. It’s just a single indiscretion, yet for Henry it precipitates a rapid fall from grace as one moral compromise after another leads him into a web of blackmail, adultery, and murder. And for a devout man like Henry, there may be nothing left but damnation.