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Stamboul Train

by Graham Greene

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. It was taken on by the Book Society and in 1934 adapted as the film Orient Express. Stamboul Train is one of a number that the author classed as an "entertainment". But though some elements in the novel have been described as , Greene's aim is to use them to go beyond their basic paradigm in order "to produce work that can be taken as art while also reaching a large audiencefor the first and last time in my life I deliberately set out to write a book to please, one which with luck might be made into a filmyou may be sure the allotments outside Bruges...

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