Greene, Graham.

The End of the Affair.

London / Melbourne / Toronto, William Heinemann Ltd., 1951. Octavo. 237 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. This Book also includes the rare original advertising-strip identifying this book as the Book of the Month-Choice of the Daily Mail. Very good + condition with mild foxing as usual. The dustjacket with splits, some fraying and some minor loss to upper spine but mostly complete. Very Rare with the Daily Mail wrapper.

The End of the Affair is a 1951 novel by British author Graham Greene.
Set in London during and just after the Second World War, the novel examines the obsessions, jealousy and discernments within the relationships between three central characters: writer Maurice Bendrix; Sarah Miles; and her husband, civil servant Henry Miles.

Graham Greene’s own affair with Catherine Walston formed the basis for The End of the Affair. The British edition of the novel is dedicated to “C” while the American version is made out to “Catherine”. Greene’s own house at 14 Clapham Common Northside was bombed during the Blitz.

The End of the Affair is the fourth and final of Greene’s “Catholic novels” tetralogy, following Brighton Rock (1938), The Power and the Glory (1940), and The Heart of the Matter (1948). (Wikipedia)

″This is a record of hate far more than of love,” writes Maurice Bendrix in the opening passages of The End of the Affair, and it is a strange hate indeed that compels him to set down the retrospective account of his adulterous affair with Sarah Miles. Now, a year after Sarah’s death, Bendrix seeks to exorcise the persistence of his passion by retracing its course from obsessive love to love-hate. At first, he believes he hates Sarah and her husband, Henry. Yet as he delves further into his emotional outlook, Bendrix’s hatred shifts to the God he feels has broken his life, but whose existence at last comes to recognize. The End of the Affair was acclaimed by William Faulkner as “for me one of the best, most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody’s language.” (Publisher’s Info)

• Keywords: Catalogue No.10 – International Literature · English Literature – Rare · English Literature of the 20th century · Graham Greene
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 32460AB

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