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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.
Stamboul Train is both a political thriller and a psychological exploration of character. The story follows the interaction between six characters on their three-day train journey from Ostend (Belgium)
13 Okt 2022 · Stamboul train by Graham Greene. Publication date 1969 Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 636835340. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2022-10-13 14:02:16 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 ...
…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. This was the first of a string of novels that he termed “entertainments,” works similar to thrillers in…
Stamboul Train. Graham Greene. W. Heinemann, Limited, 1932 - English - 307 pages. As the Orient Express hurtles across Europe on its three-day journey from Ostend to Constantinople, the driven...
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.
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