The Power and the Glory
  • Published: 3 October 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529934526
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 416
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The Power and the Glory

The Country House Before the Great War

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6 Apr 2001
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3 Oct 2024
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4 Jan 2011
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1 Dec 2010
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The thoroughly entertaining prequel to Tinniswood's Sunday Times bestselling THE LONG WEEKEND opens the doors on the excess, intrigue and absurdities of life in the late Victorian and Edwardian country house

In the decades before the First World War, the owners of the nation’s stately homes revelled in a golden age of glory and glamour. Nothing lay beyond their reach in a world where privilege and hedonism went hand-in-hand with duty and honour. This was a time when the ancestral seats of ancient nobility stood side-by-side with the fabulous palaces of Jewish bankers and Indian princes, when dukes and duchesses mixed with aristocratic society hostesses who had learned to dance in the chorus line and self-made millionaires who had been raised in the slums of Manchester and Birmingham.

The Power and the Glory explores the country house during this golden age, when Britain ruled over a quarter of the world’s population, when its stately homes were at their most opulent and when, for the privileged few, life in the country house was the best life of all.
  • Published: 3 October 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529934526
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 416
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About the author

Graham Greene

Graham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the Spectator. He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991.

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Praise for The Power and the Glory

The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists, rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings

V. S. Pritchett

The power and energy of his finest novel derive from the will toward compassion, and ideal communism even more Christian than Communism. Its unit is the individual, not any class

John Updike

No serious writer of this century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than did Graham Greene

The Times

Graham Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature

John Le Carre

The Power Tnd The Glory's nameless whisky priest blends seamlessly with his tropical, crooked, anticlerical Mexico. Roman Catholicism is intrinsic to the character and terrain both; Greene's imaginative immersion in both is triumphant

John Updike

Beautiful prose…melded with page-turning suspense… I defy anyone to read it without weeping

Minette Walters, The Week

This is Greene at his raw and powerful best

Sunday Times