<Tr> <Th> Pages </Th> <Td> 216 </Td> </Tr> <P> The Power and the Glory (1940) is a novel by British author Graham Greene . The title is an allusion to the doxology often recited at the end of the Lord's Prayer: "For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever and ever, amen ." It was initially published in the United States under the title The Labyrinthine Ways . </P> <P> Greene's novel tells the story of a renegade Roman Catholic' whisky priest' (a term coined by Greene) living in the Mexican state of Tabasco in the 1930s, a time when the Mexican government was attempting to suppress the Catholic Church . That suppression resulted in the Cristero War, so named for its Catholic combatants' slogan Viva Cristo Rey (long live Christ the King). </P> <P> In 1941, the novel received the British literary award, the Hawthornden Prize . In 2005, it was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the hundred best English - language novels since 1923 . </P>

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