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Stamboul Train is the second significant novel by Graham Greene. Set on a train journey from Ostend to Istanbul, the book was renamed Orient Express when it was published in the United States. The novel appeared in 1932 and was Greene's first true success.
Stamboul Train is the story of a number of individuals who are thrown together within the confines of a train journey - a microcosm, in a way - and Greene offers us a peek into the relationships that develop between the characters and the difficulty that each of the individuals has to adapt to the society they form.
A review of Greene's 1932 novel, an entertainment about a group of passengers on the Orient Express, each with a secret or a problem. The novel mixes action, romance, politics and mystery in a chaotic Europe.
Stamboul Train is one of my favourite novels and I just re-read it. Again. G Greene conjures up an image of bleak inter-war Europe just like Steinbeck does with the US-Mexican border. You can feel the cold in one and the sun in the other. Fantastic.
Oct 2, 2010 · A classic espionage thriller from master storyteller Graham Greene. 'One of the most important British writers of the twentieth century - he brought something undeniably new to...
Aboard the Orient Express as it heads across Europe towards Constantinople, a relationship develops between Carleton Myatt and Coral Musker, a naive...
In Graham Greene. …his own with a thriller, Stamboul Train (1932; also published as Orient Express ), which plays off various characters against each other as they ride a train from the English Channel to Istanbul.
