Bücher der Reihe Studies in 20th Century Literature

Wilfred Owen's poetry is now very widely known as the finest that came out of the First World War.

Here is a book which offers an original and comprehensive view of the thematic development in Greene's major novels from the mid-1920s to the late 1970s, cutting across the conventional distinction between the Catholic and non-Catholic phase, and illuminating the painful spiritual autonomy within which Greene's characters are impelled to operate in the twentieth-century wasteland, both in the ostensibly religious novels and in the later works.

Careful analysis of each of Green's novels, sustained by comparisons with various critics and writers, contemporary as well as non-contemporary, demonstrates the fruitfulness of this critical approach.