![]() ![]() Scobie feels responsible for her misery, but does not love her. His wife Louise, an unhappy, solitary woman who loves literature and poetry, cannot make friends. Major Scobie lives in a colony on the west coast of Africa during World War II, and is responsible for local security during wartime. 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?" In 2012, it was shortlisted for the Best of the James Tait Black. 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 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. ![]() It won the 1948 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. The Heart of the Matter was enormously popular, selling more than 300,000 copies in the United Kingdom upon its release. Although Freetown is not mentioned in the novel, Greene confirms the location in his 1980 memoir, Ways of Escape. Greene, a former British intelligence officer in Freetown, British Sierra Leone, drew on his experience there. ![]() The book details a life-changing moral crisis for Henry Scobie. The Heart of the Matter (1948) is a novel by English author Graham Greene. ![]()
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