Who wrote the 1948 novel, 'The Heart Of The Matter'?
"and a TV film version was produced in 1983, featuring Jack Hedley as Scobie. The Heart of the Matter The Heart of the Matter (1948) is a novel by English author Graham Greene. The book details a life-changing moral crisis for Henry Scobie. Greene, a British intelligence officer in Freetown, Sierra Leone, drew on his experience there. Although Freetown is not mentioned in the novel, Greene confirms the location in his 1980 memoir, ""Ways of Escape"". ""The Heart of the Matter"" was enormously popular, selling more than 300,000 copies in the United Kingdom upon its release. It won the 1948"
"his contemporary Evelyn Waugh stated that the West Africa of that book replaced the true remembered West Africa of his own experience. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked ""The Heart of the Matter"" 40th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2005, the novel was chosen by ""TIME"" magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to the present. Evelyn Waugh also mentioned that he admired the book. The novel was made into a film in 1953, directed by George More O'Ferrall and starring Trevor Howard and Maria Schell,"
"Heart of the Matter"" 40th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2005, the novel was chosen by ""TIME"" magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to the present. In 2012, it was shortlisted for the Best of the James Tait Black. The book's title appears halfway through the novel: ""If one knew, he wondered, the facts, would one have to feel pity even for the planets? If one reached what they called the heart of the matter?"" Major Scobie lives in a colony in the West Coast"
"The Four of Hearts The Four of Hearts is a novel that was published in 1938 by Ellery Queen. It is a mystery novel primarily set in Los Angeles, United States. At the end of the previous Ellery Queen novel, ""The Devil to Pay"", he's in Hollywood and about to meet studio head Jacques Butcher. At the beginning of this novel, he does so and is asked to work on a movie script about the lives of ""the fightin', feudin', first families of Hollywood"", actors John Royle and Blythe Stuart. Years ago, these tempestuous thespians had been romantic partners, but"
"The Death of the Heart The Death of the Heart is a 1938 novel by Elizabeth Bowen set in the interwar period. It is about a sixteen-year-old orphan, Portia Quayne, who moves to London to live with her half-brother Thomas and falls in love with Eddie, a friend of her sister-in-law. Bowen called it a 'pre-war' novel, ""a novel which reflects the time, the pre-war time with its high tension, its increasing anxieties, and this great stress on individualism. People were so conscious of themselves, and of each other, and of their personal relationships because they thought that everything of"
"in transition from Victorian to modern times. Lesley Storm Lesley Storm was the pen-name of Mabel Cowie (1898–1975), also known by her married name of Mabel Clark. She was a Scottish writer, who wrote a number of plays, some of which were filmed. ""Black Chiffon"" and ""Roar Like a Dove"" were major hits. She also wrote several screenplays, including ""The Heart of the Matter"" (1953), based on the novel by Graham Greene, and ""The Spanish Gardener"", based on the 1950 novel of the same name by A.J. Cronin. She wrote some novels, the best known was ""Lady, What of Life?"""
"Matters of the Heart (novel) Matters Of The Heart is a novel by Danielle Steel, published by Random House in June 2009. The book is Steel's seventy-eighth novel. Hope Dunne lives in a chic SoHo loft, content with her life as a top photographer. So when she accepts a London assignment at Christmas to photograph a world-famous writer, she never expected to fall in love. Finn O’Neill is taken aback with Hope and they have a windswept romance with Finn whisking her away to his palatial, Irish estate. Though divorced, Hope loves her ex-husband Paul very much. Paul, a retired"
"the novel ""Murphy"" in 1938. This same year Graham Greene's (1904–91) first major novel ""Brighton Rock"" was published. Then in 1939 James Joyce's published ""Finnegans Wake"". In this work Joyce creates a special language to express the consciousness of a character who is dreaming. Graham Greene was an important novelist whose works span the 1930s to the 1980s. Greene was a convert to Catholicism and his novels explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world. Notable for an ability to combine serious literary acclaim with broad popularity, his novels include, ""The Heart of the Matter"" (1948), ""A"
"about the games that really matter."" -John Harvey of ""Sports Illustrated"" Heart of the Order Heart of the Order is a 1986 novel written by Tony Ardizzone. It was published by Henry Holt and Company and won the Virginia Prize for Fiction and named one of the 10 Best Sports Books 1986 by The National Sports Review. The main character, Danny ""Kiss of the Wolf"" Bacigalupo, a baseball player from Chicago's North Side with ""blood on his bat."" In an open letter to his son, Danny recaps his life and explains how an accidental death, guilt, Catholicism, amnesia, a good"
"The Heart of the Valley The Heart of the Valley is a novel by British author Nigel Hinton. It was first published in 1986 and was his first and to date only book written for adults. The story focuses on the nature of an English valley especially the dunnocks. In the winter a female dunnock left her territory to find food and came to the front garden of Brook Cottage where other birds were also feeding from the bird table. That evening Eve Conrad of the cottage received a phone call telling her that her son Daniel was in hospital"
"Notable for an ability to combine serious literary acclaim with broad popularity, his novels include ""Brighton Rock"" (1938), ""The Power and the Glory"" (1940), ""The Heart of the Matter"" (1948), ""A Burnt-Out Case"" (1961), and ""The Human Factor"" (1978). Other novelists writing in the 1950s and later were: Anthony Powell whose twelve-volume cycle of novels ""A Dance to the Music of Time"", is a comic examination of movements and manners, power and passivity in English political, cultural and military life in the mid-20th century; comic novelist Kingsley Amis is best known for his academic satire ""Lucky Jim"" (1954); Nobel Prize"
"The Heart of the Park The Heart of the Park is a short story written by Flannery O'Connor. ""The Heart of the Park"" was not published in any of O'Connor's collections of short stories published during her lifetime, but was one of twelve stories published only in her ""Complete Stories"" after her death by her longtime editor, Robert Giraux. The story was not originally published because she later adapted the stories into her first novel, ""Wise Blood,"" where ""The Heart of the Park"" was partially edited into its own chapter. ""Wise Blood"" was published in May 1952. Enoch Emery is"
"Lesley Storm Lesley Storm was the pen-name of Mabel Cowie (1898–1975), also known by her married name of Mabel Clark. She was a Scottish writer, who wrote a number of plays, some of which were filmed. ""Black Chiffon"" and ""Roar Like a Dove"" were major hits. She also wrote several screenplays, including ""The Heart of the Matter"" (1953), based on the novel by Graham Greene, and ""The Spanish Gardener"", based on the 1950 novel of the same name by A.J. Cronin. She wrote some novels, the best known was ""Lady, What of Life?"" (Cassell, 1928). It depicted London social life"
"Heart of the Order Heart of the Order is a 1986 novel written by Tony Ardizzone. It was published by Henry Holt and Company and won the Virginia Prize for Fiction and named one of the 10 Best Sports Books 1986 by The National Sports Review. The main character, Danny ""Kiss of the Wolf"" Bacigalupo, a baseball player from Chicago's North Side with ""blood on his bat."" In an open letter to his son, Danny recaps his life and explains how an accidental death, guilt, Catholicism, amnesia, a good glove, a good level swing, and the love of a fat"
"Literature. In 1967, Greene was among the final three choices, according to Nobel records unsealed on the 50th anniversary in 2017. The committee also considered Jorge Luis Borges and Miguel Ángel Asturias, with the latter the chosen winner. Greene collected several literary awards for his novels, including the 1941 Hawthornden Prize for ""The Power and the Glory"" and the 1948 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for ""The Heart of the Matter"". As an author, he received the 1968 Shakespeare Prize and the 1981 Jerusalem Prize, a biennial literary award given to writers whose works have dealt with themes of human"
"The Heart of a Woman The Heart of a Woman (1981) is an autobiography by American writer Maya Angelou. The book is the fourth installment in Angelou's series of seven autobiographies. ""The Heart of a Woman"" recounts events in Angelou's life between 1957 and 1962 and follows her travels to California, New York City, Cairo, and Ghana as she raises her teenage son, becomes a published author, becomes active in the civil rights movement, and becomes romantically involved with a South African anti-apartheid fighter. One of the most important themes of ""The Heart of a Woman"" is motherhood, as Angelou"
"conservative agent of the British intelligence services, upholding such reactionary causes as the struggle of the Catholic Church against the Mexican revolution (""The Power and the Glory"", 1940), and arguing the necessary merciful function of religion in a context of human misery (""Brighton Rock"", 1938; ""The Heart of the Matter"", 1948). The better he came to know the socio-political realities of the third world where he was operating, and the more directly he came to be confronted by the rising tide of revolution in those countries, the more his doubts regarding the imperialist cause grew, and the more his novels"
"Heart of Gold (novel) Heart of Gold is a science fiction novel by American writer Sharon Shinn, published in 2000. The story occurs on an unnamed world in an unnamed city where three races (indigo, gulden, and albino) live together. The books focuses on conflicts between the aristocratic, pastoral, and matriarchal Indigo and the clannish, technological, and patriarchal gulden, with little said about the third albino race. The story follows Nolan Adelpho, an initially conventional indigo biochemist, and Kitrini Candachi, an indigo aristocrat raised among the gulden whose lover is an imprisoned gulden terrorist, as their lives are changed through"
"point for writing the novel. It was also based on the nature in the valley where he lived. The Heart of the Valley The Heart of the Valley is a novel by British author Nigel Hinton. It was first published in 1986 and was his first and to date only book written for adults. The story focuses on the nature of an English valley especially the dunnocks. In the winter a female dunnock left her territory to find food and came to the front garden of Brook Cottage where other birds were also feeding from the bird table. That evening"
"Heart of stone (novel) Heart of Stone is a novel written by the Italian writer Sebastiano Vassalli and published in 1996 by the publishing house Einaudi. It is the story of a stately house owned by lord Basilio Pignatelli, traced from the birth of the Italian Reign to today. Vassalli shows Italy's economic changes, in which Italians are the key players. The novel is set in Novara, a small town surrounded by snowy mountains, where lots of wars took places, for example the one against Crucchi. This story shows us the difficult period of the economic progress by describing the"
"Desert of the Heart Desert of the Heart is a 1964 novel written by Jane Rule. The story was adapted into the 1985 film ""Desert Hearts"", directed by Donna Deitch. The book was originally published in hardback by Macmillan Canada. It was one of the very few novels addressing lesbianism that was published in hardback form; most books during this period with female homosexuality as a topic were considered lesbian pulp fiction until 1969. At the time the novel was published, Rule was a lecturer at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and because the novel dealt with sapphic"
"The Heart of the Warrior The Heart of the Warrior is a """" novel written by John Gregory Betancourt. In ""Voyages of Imagination"", Betancourt remarked, ""Worf has always been one of my favorite characters, and I wanted to write a book about him but set in the Dominion, where he would find a challenge to his hand-to-hand combat skills. Unfortunately, later seasons of DS9 developed the Founders and Dominion enough that my book is, ah, retroactively contradictory to the official universe in a number of places. Which is too bad because I think it's my best ""Trek"" novel."" A crucial"
"him to Hollywood, where he becomes involved with both screenwriting and romance. ""It's fair to say that the Hollywood novels made a pleasant read, but nothing more. ... Marvellously twisted plotting a throwback to the earlier Queens, with the final revelations fairly deducible from the clues."" The Four of Hearts The Four of Hearts is a novel that was published in 1938 by Ellery Queen. It is a mystery novel primarily set in Los Angeles, United States. At the end of the previous Ellery Queen novel, ""The Devil to Pay"", he's in Hollywood and about to meet studio head Jacques"
"Heart of the Matter (TV series) Heart of the Matter is a British television debate series that aired on BBC One from 1979 to 2000. Presented variously by Joan Bakewell, Helena Kennedy QC and David Jessel, its subject matter was often concerned with religious or ethical issues. Topics covered include subjects as diverse as substance abuse, the effects of anti-personnel landmines, and homosexuality. Bakewell would usually chair an in-studio debate in which invited guests would discuss the edition's chosen topic. An edition from 1996 hosted by Joan Bakewell, ""The Heart of the Matter: God Under the Microscope"" featured a debate"
"The End of the Matter The End of the Matter (1977) is a science fiction novel by American writer Alan Dean Foster. The book is fourth chronologically in the Pip and Flinx series. The novel takes place immediately after ""Orphan Star"" with Flinx taking his new space ship, ""Teacher"" built by the Ulru-Ujurrians, to Alaspin, the home planet of his minidrag Pip, in search of the man who bid on him when Flinx was a child in a slave auction. He not only finds this man, Skua September, but also acquires a strange new alien pet Abalamahalamatandra—Ab for short—and is"
"The Big Heart The Big Heart is a novel written in 1945 by Indian novelist Mulk Raj Anand. The theme of the novel is the conflict between hereditary copper smiths and the capitalists. It is a novel about a village of artisans in Amritsar District in the early 1940s whose livelihood is destroyed by the establishment of a factory producing copper utensils. The story of the novel, takes place in Amritsar town. The man with a big heart, Ananta, who has had the experience of participating in the Gandhian struggle for freedom in Bombay, arrives in Amritsar. By this time,"
"The Heart (novel) The Heart is a 2014 realistic and medical fiction novel by the French author Maylis de Kerangal. It chronicles the events immediately following the death of 19-year-old Simon Limbres in a car accident. In particular, ""The Heart"" focuses on the transplantation of Simon's heart and how it affects those involved in the process, including Simon's parents, the physicians, the nurses, the organ transplant coordinators, the recipient, and the recipient's family, over the course of twenty-four hours. The novel was first published in France as ""Réparer les vivants"" in 2014 by Éditions Verticales, and was then published in"
"The Heart of Jade The Heart of Jade () is a novel by Spanish author Salvador de Madariaga, first published in 1942. It is widely regarded as an exceptional example of modern Spanish-language literature. The book is a work of historical fiction set in the late pre-Columbian age in Mexico City and depicts the daily life of the ancient Aztec people, both the commoners (servants, traders and warriors) and the upper classes (priests, nobles, and government officials). The ""Mexican"" section contains a great deal of Mexican symbolism, geographical, political and religious references and historical data took from various authors like"
"Heart of Darkness Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad about a narrated voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State in the so-called ""heart of Africa"". Charles Marlow, the narrator, tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames. This setting provides the frame for Marlow's story of his obsession with the ivory trader Kurtz, which enables Conrad to create a parallel between what Conrad calls ""the greatest town on earth"", London, and Africa as places of darkness. Central to Conrad's work is the idea that there is"
"spy, created anti-heroic protagonists who struggled with the ethical issues involved in espionage, and sometimes resorted to immoral tactics. Le Carré's middle-class George Smiley is a middle-aged spy burdened with an unfaithful, upper-class wife who publicly cuckolds him for sport. Like Le Carré, former British Intelligence officer Graham Greene also examined the morality of espionage in left-leaning, anti-imperialist novels such as ""The Heart of the Matter"" (1948), set in Sierra Leone, the seriocomic ""Our Man in Havana"" (1959) occurring in the Cuba of dictator Fulgencio Batista before his deposition by Fidel Castro's popular Cuban Revolution (1953–59), and ""The Human Factor"""
"The Passionate Heart The Passionate Heart () is a 1952 novel by Béatrix Beck, which won the Prix Goncourt. It was published in the UK as ""The Priest"" (1953) and in the US as ""The Passionate Heart"" (1953). A movie version was made in 1961 called ""Léon Morin, Priest"" (French: ""Léon Morin, prêtre""), directed and scripted by Jean-Pierre Melville, and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Emmanuelle Riva. Belmondo was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor. Another version entitled ""La Confession"" was released in 2016, directed by Nikolas Boukhrief. In a small French town during the Occupation, Barny is"
"Heart of Stone (German fairy tale) Heart of Stone (, literally ""The Cold Heart"") is a fairy tale written by Wilhelm Hauff. It was published in 1827 in a collection of fairy tales that take place within the narrative of ""The Spessart Inn"". It formed the basis for the East German film Heart of Stone, released in 1950. Despite taking over his late father's charcoal factory, Peter Marmot who goes by the name Coal-marmot Peter is not content with the dirty, exhausting, low paying and low status work. He dreams of prosperity and prestige. Then he hears about a forest"
"The Heart of Maryland (play) The Heart of Maryland was a theatrical play written, produced and directed by David Belasco. The four-act melodrama set in the American Civil War opened at the Herald Square Theatre in New York on October 22, 1895 and ran for 240 performances. Mrs. Leslie Carter originated the role of Maryland Calvert and Maurice Barrymore originated the role of Col. Alan Kendrick. William Furst composed the play's incidental music. The play toured throughout the United States for several years, and was made into a silent film by the same title in 1927. Silent versions also appeared"