Heart of the Matter
Graham Greene
Literary Fiction
Heart of the Matter
by Graham Greene
—· 288 p· 2005
20th Century ClassicLiterary Canonreflectivedark
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOOD Scobie, a police officer serving in a war-time West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.
Pages
288
Penguin Random House
Linguistic complexity
4/5
Complex
Thematic complexity
4/5
Rich
Rating
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Reader feel
Moral Ambiguity10
Prose9
Emotional depth8
Narration8
Colonial Setting7
Plot twists6
Pacing6
Worldbuilding5
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