Stamboul Train: xiii (Vintage classics) - Softcover

Greene, Graham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099478366 ISBN 13: 9780099478362

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2004

Synopsis

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 fiction’ Daily Telegraph

Carleton Myatt meets Coral Musker, a naïve English chorus girl, aboard the Orient Express as it heads across Europe to Constantinople. As their relationship develops, they find themselves caught up in the fates of the other passengers and drawn into a web of espionage, murder and lies.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

About this title

Review:

"He taught us to look at each other with new eyes. I don't suppose his influence will ever disappear" (Auberon Waugh Independent)

"Graham Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature" (John Le Carre)

"No serious writer of this century had more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than did Graham Greene" (The Times)

"A tour de force... The realist and the romantic struggle with each other in this book, making it a kind of mental battlefield, inducing a sense of breathlessness and urgency" (L. P. Hartley)

"One of the most important British writers of the twentieth century - he brought something undeniably new to fiction" (Daily Telegraph)

Book Description:

‘A very remarkable piece of work, splendidly written, exciting, disturbing.’ L. P. Hartley

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0099478366
• ISBN 13: 9780099478362
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224