The Power and the Glory The Power and the Glory The Power and the Glory (1940) is a novel by British author Graham Greene. The title is an allusion to the doxology often recited at the end of the Lord's Prayer: "For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever and ever, amen." It was initially published in the United States under the title The Labyrinthine Ways. Greene's novel tells the story of a renegade Roman Catholic 'whisky priest' (a term coined by Greene) living in the Mexican state of Tabasco in the 1930s, a time when the Mexican government was attempting to
The Power (Alderman novel) The Power (Alderman novel) The Power is a 2016 science fiction novel by the British writer Naomi Alderman. Its central premise is women developing the ability to release electrical jolts from their fingers, thus leading them to become the dominant gender. In June 2017, "The Power" won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. The book was also named by The New York Times as one of the 10 Best Books of 2017. In December 2017, former U.S. President Barack Obama named "The Power" as one of his favorite books of 2017. "The Power" is a book within a book: a