William Golding called the bipolar Catholic author Graham Greene “the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man’s consciousness and anxiety”. Both Greene’s thrillers and his more serious novels are suffused with concerns of politics and religion, flawed institutions, characters who betray others and their own consciences, and grace and redemption in unexpected places.

His first novel, The Man Within, was published in 1929. It joins the public domain in 56 days. #PublicDomainDayCountdown