WELCOME TO THE BOOK BLANKET! NEW TO PANGOBOOKS? USE MY SPECIAL DISCOUNT CODE myantonia21 TO GET $5 OFF YOUR 1ST ORDER (OF $10 OR MORE). MY CODE WORKS WITH ANY SELLER. 😀 Questions? Want more pics? Want to make me a bundle $ offer? Shoot me a message and I'll respond quickly...I promise 😀 Every order includes stickers etc 😀 *************************************** The Heart Of The Matter (1948) is a psychological novel by English author Graham Greene (1904-1991). Henry Scobie is trapped in a loveless marriage but feels a sense of duty to his wife and his faith. When he begins an affair with a young woman, he is overwhelmed by guilt and struggles to find a way out. The Heart Of The Matter is Greene's mediation on the limits of faith and the cost of morality. "Wilson sat on the balcony of the Bedford Hotel with his bald pink knees thrust against the ironwork..." Graham Greene's masterpiece, The Heart of the Matter, tells the story of a good man enmeshed in love, intrigue, and evil in a West African coastal town. Scobie is bound by strict integrity to his role as assistant police commissioner and by severe responsibility to his wife, Louise, for whom he cares with a fatal pity. When Scobie falls in love with the young widow Helen, he finds vital passion again yielding to pity, integrity giving way to deceit and dishonor—a vortex leading directly to murder. As Scobie's world crumbles, his personal crisis develops the foundation of a story by turns suspenseful, fascinating, and, finally, tragic. Originally published in 1948, The Heart of the Matteris the unforgettable portrait of one man—flawed yet heroic, destroyed and redeemed by a terrible conflict of passion and faith.