The Power and the Glory (Gentle Giant album) The new edition was released by Alucard, the company that managed Gentle Giant material. The Power and the Glory (Gentle Giant album) The Power and the Glory is the sixth album by the British progressive rock group Gentle Giant, released in 1974. Contrary to popular belief, the title of the album and its many lyrical themes were not inspired by author Graham Greene's novel of the same name, although Derek Shulman was aware of Greene's novel. Guitarist Gary Green has cited this album as his favourite by the band. The concept album focused on an individual who means to do
Glory (novel) house in Switzerland having delivered the troubling news. "Glory" was, as the writer and critic John Updike observed in a 1972 "New Yorker" review, the author's fifth Russian-language novel but his last to be translated to English. "In its residue of bliss experienced," Updike writes, "and in its charge of bliss conveyed, 'Glory' measures up as, though the last to arrive, far from the least of this happy man's Russian novels." In his non-fiction book "U & I," the writer Nicholson Baker classes "Glory" as among his favorites of Nabokov's Russian works. Glory (novel) Glory () is a Russian novel