What begins as seemingly as a book about British colonial presence in Africa during WWII ends as a novel about “faith,” “faithfulness,” and marriage. I know of this novel from a handful of different sources; one, it’s famous in its own right as a novel; two, it’s on the MLA top 100 list of 20th century novels; three, a college professor for a modernism class gave of an overview of British fiction of the 20th century and this one was one of his favorites. It’s […]
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
