The Heart Of The Matter
By Graham Greene
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The Heart Of The Matter by Graham Greene ranked # 40 on The Modern Library's Top 100 Novels list as selected by its Board Members.
The Heart of the Matter (1948) is a novel by British author Graham
Greene. It deals with Catholicism and moral change in the
protoganist, Scobie.
Greene wrote the novel drawing on a background he got to know operating as a British intelligence officer in Freetown, Sierra Leone. (Although the location is not specifically mentioned throughout the novel, it can easily be deduced.)
The book's title appears about halfway through the novel in the
following passage:
"If one knew, he wondered, the facts, would one have to feel pity even for the planets? If one reached what they called the heart of the
matter?"
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