The Great Novels

This set gathers six independent novels of conscience and political setting. Brighton Rock follows the boy gangster Pinkie in a seaside racing town. The Power and the Glory tracks a hunted priest in anticlerical Mexico. The Heart of the Matter concerns a colonial policeman in West Africa. The End of the Affair is a wartime London story of jealousy and conversion. The Quiet American places a reporter and an idealistic American in Vietnam. A Burnt-Out Case sends an architect to a Congo leprosarium. Each book is complete in itself. The volume is a group of novels, not a continuous saga.

Bound in green cloth with a design in black and orange (different for each volume) by Grandfield. Orange-red endleaves. Seven leaves of plates in each volume. Green six-volume slipcase decorated and titled with a design in black and orange by Grandfield.