The Power and the Glory

by Graham Greene · 1940

Set in the late 1930s in a remote part of southern Mexico, Graham Greene's *The Power and the Glory* follows the nameless "whisky priest"—the last surviving clergyman—as he evades a ruthless paramilitary force that has outlawed the Catholic Church. The novel is a moralist thriller that explores faith, guilt, and redemption amid political oppression and anti‑clerical persecution. Celebrated as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century and named by *Time* among the 100 best, the Penguin Classics 75th‑anniversary edition presents Greene’s masterpiece with an introduction by John Updike.