Orient Express
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$27.76
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
31 August 2004
Summary
“The purser took the last landing-card in his hand and watched the passengers cross the wet quay, over a wilderness of rails and points, round the corners of abandoned trucks.”
As the Orient Express hurtles across Europe on its three-day journey from Ostend to Constantinople, its voyage binds together the lives of several of its passengers in a fateful interlock. The menagerie of characters includes Coral Musker, a beautiful chorus girl; Carleton Myatt, a rich Jewish businessman; Rich…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780142437919 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0142437913 |
| Author: | Graham Greene, Christopher Hitchens |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 31 August 2004 |
| Weight: | 249g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 143mm x 213mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition |
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Graham Greene
Graham Greene (1904-1991) was a celebrated novelist of the twentieth century. Educated at Berkhamsted School and Balliol College, Oxford, he began his career as a sub-editor for The London Times. Greene gained recognition as a novelist with his fourth book, Orient Express (1932).
His travels significantly influenced his writing. In 1935, he journeyed across northern Liberia, an experience chronicled in A Journey Without Maps (1936). His conversion to Catholicism in 1926 deeply impacted his work, leading to “Catholic” novels such as Brighton Rock, The Heart of the Matter, The End of the Affair, and The Power and the Glory, the latter informed by his reporting on religious persecution in Mexico in The Lawless Roads (1938).
During World War II, Greene served with the British secret service in Sierra Leone. Post-war, his extensive travels as a journalist informed novels including The Quiet American, Our Man in Havana, The Comedians, Travels with My Aunt, The Honorary Consul, The Human Factor, Monsignor Quixote, and The Captain and the Enemy.
Beyond his many novels, Greene authored several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, two autobiographies (A Sort of Life and Ways of Escape), two biographies, and four children’s books. He also contributed numerous essays, film, and book reviews to The Spectator and other journals, many collected in Reflections. Several of his novels have been adapted into films, notably The Third Man, which originated as a screenplay treatment by Greene. He was recognized with numerous awards, including Companion of Honour and the Order of Merit.
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