Vintage HCBook 'The Heart of the Matter' Graham Greene William Heinemann 1952

Vintage HCBook 'The Heart of the Matter' Graham Greene William Heinemann 1952 Reprinted by Heinemann in 1952 Size 7" x 4.5" x 1.25", weight 10oz Book is in Very Good pre-owned condition, missing its Cover. The Heart of the Matter (1948) is a novel by English author Graham Greene. The book details a life-changing moral crisis for Henry Scobie. Greene, a former British intelligence officer in Freetown, British Sierra Leone, drew on his experience there. Although Freetown is not mentioned in the novel, Greene confirms the location in his 1980 memoir, Ways of Escape. The Heart of the Matter was enormously popular, selling more than 300,000 copies in the United Kingdom upon its release. It won the 1948 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Heart of the Matter 40th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2005, the novel was chosen by Time magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to the present. **** If you’re new to Poshmark - Welcome! Use our sign-up code PROJECT_RELOVE to get $10 off your first purchase.**** All measurements & weights given are approximate, and should be used for reference purposes only. We use recycled materials to ship our products. TB836