Description: "First published in the United States of America under the title 'The labyrinthine ways' by The Viking Press 1940"--Title page verso.
Review Quotes: Named one of the 100 best novels of the 20th century by Time magazine
"Greene's masterpiece . . . The energy and grandeur of his finest novel derive from the . . . will toward compassion. . . . It succeeds . . . resoundingly." --John Updike, from the Introduction "Brilliant . . . a splendid achievement." --The Atlantic Monthly "[Greene] captured the conscience of the twentieth century like no other." --William Golding, Nobel Prize-winning author of Lord of the Flies "No serious writer of [the twentieth] century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination as did Graham Greene." --Time "Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature." --John le Carré