The End of the Affair (ePub)

Graham Greene (1904-1991) is recognized as one of the most important writers of the twentieth century, achieving both literary acclaim and popular success. His best known works include Brighton Rock, The Heart of the Matter, The Quiet American, and The Power and the Glory. After leaving Oxford, Greene first pursued a career in journalism before dedicating himself full-time to writing with his first big success, Stamboul Train. He became involved in screenwriting and wrote adaptations for the cinema as well as original screenplays, the most successful being The Third Man. Religious, moral, and political themes are at the root of much of his work, and throughout his life he traveled to some of the wildest and most volatile parts of the world, which provided settings for his fiction. Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour.

“Remains from first to last an almost faultless display of craftsmanship and a wonderfully assured statement of ideas.” —The New Yorker
 
“The relationship of lover to husband with its crazy mutation of pity, hate, comradeship, jealousy, and contempt is superbly described. . . . The heroine is consistently lovable.” —Evelyn Waugh
 
“An absorbing piece of work, passionately felt and strikingly written.” —The Atlantic Monthly
 
“One of the most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody’s language.” —William Faulkner
 
“As intense and penetrating and disturbing as an inquisitor’s gaze.” —John Updike, The New York Review of Books 
 
“Savage and sad, vulgar and ideal, coarse and refined, and a rather accurate image of an era of cunning and glory, of cowardice and heroism, of belief and unbelief.” —The New York Times

“Oh, how I love [this] book! It’s about ships passing in the night and grave misunderstandings and lost opportunities and time running out. It gets me every time.” —Reese Witherspoon, The New York Times

Praise for Graham Greene
“The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists, rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings . . . A master of storytelling.” —V. S. Pritchett, The Times (London)
 
“In a class by himself . . . The ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man’s consciousness and anxiety.” —William Golding
 
“A superb storyteller with a gift for provoking controversy.” —The New York Times
 
“Greene had the sharpest eyes for trouble, the finest nose for human weaknesses, and was pitilessly honest in his observations. . . . For experience of a whole century he was the man