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 –
Maurice Graham English Maurice Graham English Maurice Graham English was a World War I Irish aviator who was shot down by German flying ace Hans Goerth. Maurice English was the second son of John Graham English and his wife Ellen "Nellie" Jane English of Marlborough Street in Derry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. A native of Derry, he was born in the second quarter of 1898 and attended Foyle College in the city of Derry. English was a member of the First Derry Presbyterian Church, and was with Brown's Engineering Works before he joined the service. During World War I, Maurice English initially served