{"product_id":"2026600000374-secondhand-the-last-word-and-other-stories","title":"The Last Word: And Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Very good                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good                  \u003cbr\u003eMarkings: No markings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA masterful collection of short fiction, The Last Word and Other Stories gathers twelve late works by one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary voices, presenting a range of moral and political landscapes rendered with quiet, penetrating precision. The title story imagines a chilling future in which a totalitarian world state confronts the last surviving Pope, illustrating Greene's enduring preoccupation with faith, power, and the fragility of human conscience. Across the collection, Greene chronicles lives caught at moments of crisis — spies, priests, lovers, and ordinary men undone by circumstance — each story suffused with the melancholy wit and moral ambiguity that defined his longer fiction. The tone throughout is characteristically Greenean: cool on the surface yet charged with spiritual unease beneath, drawing readers into ethical dilemmas that resist easy resolution. Published posthumously, this volume stands as a testament to a writer whose compressed, economical prose lost none of its authority or insight even in his final years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48792243110107,"sku":"2026600000374-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/7c0924f0-739f-4752-8638-9bfa6f2fa9db.png?v=1779273898","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026600000374-secondhand-the-last-word-and-other-stories","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}