Graham Greene recovering the religious element, the awareness of the drama of the struggle in the soul that carries the permanent consequence of salvation or damnation, and of the ultimate metaphysical realities of good and evil, sin and divine grace, could the novel recover its dramatic power. Suffering and unhappiness are omnipresent in the world Greene depicts; and Catholicism is presented against a background of unvarying human evil, sin, and doubt. V. S. Pritchett praised Greene as the first English novelist since Henry James to present, and grapple with, the reality of evil. Greene concentrated on portraying the characters' internal lives –
Graham C. Greene Alexander, a stepdaughter named Charlotte and a stepson. Graham C. Greene Graham Carleton Greene, CBE, (10 July 1936 – 10 October 2016) was a British publisher who was managing director of Jonathan Cape from 1962 to 1990, and the nephew of the novelist Graham Greene. He was chairman of the British Museum. Graham was born in Berlin to Hugh Carleton Greene (who was The Daily Telegraph's correspondent) and Helga Guinness. Most of his childhood was spent in the United Kingdom, with his education taking place at Eton College and University College, Oxford. After a period with the Guinness Mahon family