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The Power and the Glory
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July 1, 2023
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July 31, 2023
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New School Classics- 1915-2005
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July 2023 New School Classic Group Read

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RJ - Slayer of Trolls
“O God, forgive me - I am a proud, lustful, greedy man. I have loved authority too much. These people are martyrs - protecting me with their own lives. They deserve a martyr to care for them - not a man like me, who loves all the wrong things.”

Based on Greene's travels in Mexico in 1938 (more thoroughly documented in his non-fiction The Lawless Roads), this story of a "whiskey priest" on the run from authorities is often named as Greene's "masterpiece." The persecution of Catholic priests re
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Laura
Another masterpiece written by Graham Greene.

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