GREENE, Graham.
The Labyrinthine Ways.
New York: The Viking Press , 1940.
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First Edition of Graham Greene's The Labyrinthine Ways
First edition of this award-winning novel. Octavo, original yellow cloth. In very good condition with some rubbing to the spine, extremities, and front panel, some toning to the front and rear free pastedown, front and rear free endpaper.
Henry Graham Greene was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer, both of serious Catholic novels and of thrillers. In 1940, he published 'The Labyrinthine Ways,' also known as 'The Power and the Glory' about a renegade Catholic 'whisky priest' [a term coined by Greene] living in the Mexican state of Tabasco in the 1930s. The novel received the Hawthornden Prize British literary award a year later, and was chosen by TIME magazine in 2005 as one of the hundred best English-language novels since 1923.
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