The Lawless Roads

The Lawless Roads

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name = The Lawless Roads
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image_caption = First edition cover
author = Graham Greene
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
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genre = Novel
publisher = Longmans
release_date = 1939
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
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isbn = ISBN 0140185801
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followed_by = none

"The Lawless Roads" (1939) is a travel account by Graham Greene, based on his 1938 trip to Mexico, to see the effects of the government's campaign of forced anti-Catholic secularisation and how the inhabitants had reacted to the brutal anticlerical purges of President Plutarco Elías Calles.

A Catholic and conservative man, Greene travels to Mexico to find the remnants of Catholicism. His journey takes him from the northern border towns, through the cosmopolitan capital, and then into the states of Puebla and Chiapas.

The voyage produced two books, the factual "The Lawless Roads" (published as "Another Mexico" in the U.S.), and the novel "The Power and the Glory".

Context

*Calles Law
*Cristero War

References

* "The Lawless Roads" — ISBN 978-0143039730
* "Another Mexico" — ISBN 978-0670128921


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