Shelden is concerned with the darker side of Greene's life and work, his conflict with an inner self that informed his predilection for practical jokes, espionage, and numerous infidelities and deceptions as well as a lifelong obsession with suicide. Such a conflict, Shelden argues, helps us understand both Greene's Catholicism and the depths of his seemingly less serious work.
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