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Heart Of The Matter, The
de Greene Graham
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Good+
- Librería
-
Vars, Ontario, Canada
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The Reprint Society, London, England. Good+. 1950. Hardcover. Red hard covers, gilt titles pannelled in black to the spine. A good+ book with a tight binding and a clean, unmarked text. The cover does have scuffing with wear to the spine titles. "Scobie is an officer in a war-torn West African state. When he is passed over for a promotion, he borrows money to send his wife away on holiday. In her absence, he falls in love with Helen, a young widow, and his life is transformed. With an inability to distinguish between love, pity and responsibility, Scobie moves towards his final damnation..." ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 297 pages; Box 34 .
Sinopsis
Graham Greene’s The Heart of the Matter, set in an unnamed West African colony towards the end of World War II, is loosely based on the author’s own experience as a British intelligence officer in Sierra Leone. The novel’s protagonist, Henry Scobie, struggles to make his miserable wife happy. In the process, Scobie begins to wonder if any individual can truly make another happy, resulting in a life-changing moral crisis. The Heart of the Matter, an insightful exploration of pity, suffering, religion, and responsibility, quickly became extremely popular, having sold more than 300,000 copies upon publication. The novel was critically acclaimed and received many favorable reviews. In 1948, The Heart of the Matter was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and it was shortlisted for the Best of the James Tait Black awardees in 2012. The novel is ranked 40th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century and is also listed on TIME’s “100 Best Novels” (since 1923).
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Detalles
- Librería
- Bytown Bookery
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 16532
- Título
- Heart Of The Matter, The
- Autor
- Greene Graham
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good+
- Editorial
- The Reprint Society, London, England
- Fecha de publicación
- 1950
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Classics; France; Fiction, Classic;
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
