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Orient Express : (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Paperback - 2004
by Graham Greene
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- Title Orient Express : (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
- Author Graham Greene
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 197
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York
- Date 2004
- Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0142437913I3N00
- ISBN 9780142437919 / 0142437913
- Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 8.42 x 5.5 x 0.6 in (21.39 x 13.97 x 1.52 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Suspense fiction, Europe
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004559893
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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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, the driven lives of several of its passengers become bound together in a fateful interlock. The menagerie of characters include 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.
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- Library Journal, 10/15/2004, Page 99