Orient Express - (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Paperback, Deluxe ed.)

"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; Richard John, a mysterious and kind doctor returning to his native Belgrade; the spiteful journalist Mabel Warren; and Josef Grunlich, a cunning, murderous burglar. What happens to these strangers as they put on and take off their masks of identity and passion, all the while confessing, prevaricating, and reaching out to one another in the "veracious air" of the onrushing train, makes for one of Graham Greene's most exciting and suspenseful stories. Originally published in 1933, Orient Express was Greene's first major success. This Penguin Deluxe Edition features an introduction by Christopher Hitchens. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

General

Imprint:	Penguin USA
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
Release date:	August 2004
First published:	August 2004
Authors:	Graham Greene
Introduction by:	Christopher Hitchens
Dimensions:	213 x 143 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	197
Edition:	Deluxe ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-14-243791-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-14-243791-3
Barcode:	9780142437919

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