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The Heart of the Matter
by Graham Greene
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Poor/No Jacket
- Seller
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Decatur, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking Press, 1948. Book Club Edition . Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book Club edition, July 1948. 306 pages. Dimensions: 8.25" x 5.5". Lacking the dust jacket, but overall an acceptable reading copy. Condition: Fair to poor. Pages are clean with no writing or markings by pencil, pen, or highlighting. A few pages creased, not affecting readability. Boards have some water damage to front and back covers. Binding is tight and spine is square, no cocking; some water staining spots to cloth at spine.
Synopsis
Graham Greene’s The Heart of the Matter, set in an unnamed West African colony towards the end of World War II, is loosely based on the author’s own experience as a British intelligence officer in Sierra Leone. The novel’s protagonist, Henry Scobie, struggles to make his miserable wife happy. In the process, Scobie begins to wonder if any individual can truly make another happy, resulting in a life-changing moral crisis. The Heart of the Matter, an insightful exploration of pity, suffering, religion, and responsibility, quickly became extremely popular, having sold more than 300,000 copies upon publication. The novel was critically acclaimed and received many favorable reviews. In 1948, The Heart of the Matter was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and it was shortlisted for the Best of the James Tait Black awardees in 2012. The novel is ranked 40th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century and is also listed on TIME’s “100 Best Novels” (since 1923).
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Details
- Seller
- Morton Brothers Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- G17004
- Title
- The Heart of the Matter
- Author
- Graham Greene
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1948
- Pages
- 306
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction & Literature;
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Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
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