 One of the most influential novels of the immediate post-war period was William Cooper's naturalistic "Scenes from Provincial Life", a conscious rejection of the modernist tradition.Graham Greene was a convert to Catholicism and his novels explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world.Notable for an ability to combine serious literary acclaim with broad popularity, his novels include "Brighton Rock" (1938), "The Power and the Glory" (1940), "The Heart of the Matter" (1948), "A Burnt-Out Case" (1961), and "The Human Factor" (1978).