The Heart Of The Matter
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A masterpiece of moral fiction, The Heart of the Matter chronicles the tragic downfall of Henry Scobie, a deeply conscientious British police officer stationed in West Africa during World War II. Greene presents a man of profound integrity slowly crushed beneath the weight of his own compassion — a man who loves too much and, in doing so, destroys himself. The novel unfolds with quiet, suffocating tension as Scobie becomes entangled in an adulterous affair, financial corruption, and a crisis of Catholic faith, each compromise pulling him further from the man he once was. Greene argues, with devastating clarity, that pity — not hatred — can be the most corrosive of human emotions. The result is a psychologically rich and spiritually haunting portrait of guilt, duty, and the impossible burden of being good.
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Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A masterpiece of moral fiction, The Heart of the Matter chronicles the tragic downfall of Henry Scobie, a deeply conscientious British police officer stationed in West Africa during World War II. Greene presents a man of profound integrity slowly crushed beneath the weight of his own compassion — a man who loves too much and, in doing so, destroys himself. The novel unfolds with quiet, suffocating tension as Scobie becomes entangled in an adulterous affair, financial corruption, and a crisis of Catholic faith, each compromise pulling him further from the man he once was. Greene argues, with devastating clarity, that pity — not hatred — can be the most corrosive of human emotions. The result is a psychologically rich and spiritually haunting portrait of guilt, duty, and the impossible burden of being good.
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A masterpiece of moral fiction, The Heart of the Matter chronicles the tragic downfall of Henry Scobie, a deeply conscientious British police officer stationed in West Africa during World War II. Greene presents a man of profound integrity slowly crushed beneath the weight of his own compassion — a man who loves too much and, in doing so, destroys himself. The novel unfolds with quiet, suffocating tension as Scobie becomes entangled in an adulterous affair, financial corruption, and a crisis of Catholic faith, each compromise pulling him further from the man he once was. Greene argues, with devastating clarity, that pity — not hatred — can be the most corrosive of human emotions. The result is a psychologically rich and spiritually haunting portrait of guilt, duty, and the impossible burden of being good.
