Greene was a prolific writer, producing over twenty-five novels along with short stories and nonfiction. His novels The Power and the Glory (1940), The Heart of the Matter (1948), and The End of the Affair (1951) are considered (along with A Burnt-Out Case) to be his "Catholic novels." Greene was recognized as a part of a Catholic revival in English literature, other figures of which include Evelyn Waugh and G.K. Chesterton.
Though written earlier than Greene's oeuvre, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899) explores the violence and tension in the colonial Belgian Congo.
Alan Brennert's novel Moloka'i concerns the Hawaiian leper colony where Father Damien served, as mentioned several...
