This collection of essays include several essays from "The Lost Childhood", often revised or expanded, while over a third are collected here for the first time. The first essay describes how Majorie Bowen's "Viper of Milan" inspired Greene to begin to write at 14 - the last, his return in 1968 to Sierra Leone, the setting of "The Heart of the Matter".
- ISBN10 0370003403
- ISBN13 9780370003405
- Publish Date 1 January 1969
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 February 2002
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint The Bodley Head Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 463
- Language English