An account of Greene's travels in 1930's Mexico after the anti-clerical purges which inspired The Power and the Glory
Graham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the Spectator. He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991.
Journey Without Maps and The Lawless Roads reveal Greene's ravening
spiritual hunger, a desperate need to touch rock bottom within the
self and in the humanly created world
*Times Higher Education Supplement*
Greene's originality lay in his gifts as a traveller. He had the
foreign ear and eye for the strangeness of ordinary life and its
ordinary crises
*Guardian*
Infuses the geography of distant places with an intense
understanding of individual human destiny at play under startling
and oppressive social conditions
*Newsday*
The Lawless Roads, a masterpiece, embraces the spiritual and
political conflict of the twentieth century, the cruelty of social
engineers, the corruption of politicians and the wan humanity of
martyrs made heroic by grace
*Independent*
Greene's work is a crucial link between the two most dynamic
cultures of the present day, the Hispanic and the
Anglo-American
*Observer*
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