![]() ![]() ![]() If it was unusual for a novelist to serve as a paid intelligence agent, it was not unusual for a novelist to write about spies, which Greene did throughout his life. Greene did a fair amount of professional spy work, in an official capacity during the Second World War and as a freelance agent-for-hire well into the 1970s. Indeed, many of his relatives (and Greene himself) engaged in more or less regular professional spycraft. This behavior continued in his university career at Oxford, where Greene entertained German spies in his room. In this stifling atmosphere, the son rapidly learned to be quiet and unobtrusive-secretive, even. Charles Greene believed masturbation to be a physically degenerative act that would lead boys to perdition. Young Graham was expected not only to exhibit exemplary behavior, but to inform his father when his fellow pupils misbehaved-that is, engaged in sexual vice. His father, Charles Greene, was headmaster of a well-regarded boarding school that Greene attended. Pursued by a relentless police lieutenant, the priest ultimately meets with a dire fate.Įvents in History at the Time of the Novelīorn in 1904, Graham Greene grew up in a world where duty, tradition, and moral virtue were primary emphases in a boy’s upbringing. A novel set in Mexico in the 1930s first published in 1940.Īn unnamed priest struggles with fear and a sense of unworthiness in a region of Mexico where it is a capital offense to function as a priest. ![]()
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