GREENE, Graham The Ministry of Fear 1963, William Heinemann Ltd, London
8vo. Original red cloth bound boards lettered in gilt with wraparound pictorial dust jacket; (6) 268 (2); dust wrapper slightly nicked at corners; minor stain to front pastedown; intenally clean; near fine copy.
Acknlowedged to be a hugely authorative 20th century novelist, Graham Greene's The Ministry of Fear is a taut political thriller or what he preferred to call one of his many 'entertainments'; work which he distinguished from his other many 'novels'. Famed for his excavation of the political issues of the modern world, his writing also demonstrates sigificant Catholic undercurrents despite his rejection of the title "Catholic novelist", particularly Brighton Rock, 1938 and The End of The Affair, 1951 .
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