They fall in love and have an affair tortured by his jealousy and her guilt. Maurice Bendrix, a second-rank novelist, wants to write about a civil servant, and makes the acquaintance of his neighbour’s wife, Sarah. Set in Clapham during the blitz (before the war, Greene owned a house in Clapham), it’s a story of adultery. Crucially, it dates from Greene’s best years, the age of postwar austerity that also nurtured the previous author (No 70) in this series, George Orwell.
The novel owes its inspiration to the conventions of romantic fiction while at the same time transcending genre. I’ve chosen The End of the Affair because it blurs the line he drew between his “entertainments” and his more serious work. We feel that pre-loved books exude character and evoke memories.T here are many Greenes, and almost all of them – the thriller writer ( The Third Man), the entertainer ( Our Man in Havana), the contemporary political novelist ( The Quiet American), the polemicist ( The Comedians) and the serious religious writer ( The Power and the Glory) – deserve consideration in this series. Every book is then wrapped in recycled brown paper like the booksellers of old used to do. Books that excite us, inspire creativity, and teach us things we never knew. From London to Paris and Mexico City, we’ve picked up the best literature on our travels for your reading pleasure. Proust’s Paperbacks is a seller of vintage books, found in cities all over the world. This is a collaboration between The Vintage Jeweller and Proust’s Paperbacks. This copy was published by Penguin in 1988.Ĭomments: As this is a vintage book, there is some very minor damage to the spine, to the front cover and to the back cover. Yet the story remains unexpectedly poignant and graceful, a testament to Greene’s skill. Told with a candid intensity, The End of the Affair explores dark aspects of passionate relationships like obsession and jealousy. His devotion is reignited after an unwitting run-in with her, a feeling that takes a strange turn when he hires a private investigator to tail her. Set against the backdrop of wartime London, an illicit relationship between Maurice Bendrix and a married woman named Sarah comes to an abrupt end. A story of the repercussions of a love affair by Graham Greene.
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