A Burnt-Out Case

A famous architect struggling with a crisis of faith escapes to a leper colony in the Congo, in Graham Greene's "greatest novel" (Time).

Querry is a world-renowned architect noted for his magnificent churches, each designed not for the glory of God, but for the satisfaction of self. Suddenly infected with indifference, he has abandoned his pursuit of pleasure. Now he has reached the end of desire at the end of the world—a colony of lepers in the remote jungles of Africa.

Here, under the guida...