• The Power and the Glory

  • By: Graham Greene
  • Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
  • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (35 ratings)

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The Power and the Glory

By: Graham Greene
Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
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Publisher's summary

In a poor Mexican state in the 1930s, the Red Shirts have viciously persecuted the clergy and murdered many priests. Yet one remains - the ‘whisky priest’ who believes he's lost his soul. On the run and with the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut off, his chances getting fewer. But compassion and humanity force him along the road to his destiny…

Andrew Sachs reads Graham Greene’s powerful novel about a worldly Roman Catholic priest and his quest for penitence and dignity.

©1940 Graham Greene (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

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A story unlike others and great narration

A story unlike any I’ve ever read and great narration. In a sense it’s an adventure story, which keeps things interesting and moving where otherwise the dialogue or thoughts could have been slow. It’s too bad about the skipping part in the second last chapter—I don’t know how much was skipped. The story engaged my affections and I really felt for the whisky priest by the end

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Boring

The best is the narrator, incredible voice. But the story is so boring and depressing.

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