{"product_id":"orient-express-an-entertainment-paperback","title":"Orient Express: An Entertainment - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGraham Greene\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eChristopher Hitchens\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat 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, \u003cb\u003eOrient Express\u003c\/b\u003e was Greene's first major success. \u003cb\u003eThis Penguin Deluxe Edition features an introduction by Christopher Hitchens.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGraham Greene (1904-1991), whose long life nearly spanned the length of the twentieth century, was one of its greatest novelists. Educated at Berkhamsted School and Balliol College, Oxford, he started his career as a sub-editor of the \u003cb\u003eLondon\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eTimes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eHe began to attract notice as a novelist with his fourth book, \u003cb\u003eOrient Express\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003ein 1932. In 1935, he trekked across northern Liberia, his first experience in Africa, told in \u003cb\u003eA Journey Without Maps\u003c\/b\u003e (1936). He converted to Catholicism in 1926, an edifying decision, and reported on religious persecution in Mexico in 1938 in \u003cb\u003eThe Lawless Roads\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich served as a background for his famous \u003cb\u003eThe Power and the Glory\u003c\/b\u003e, one of several \"Catholic\" novels (\u003cb\u003eBrighton\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eRock\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Heart of the Matter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe End of the Affair\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e). \u003c\/i\u003eDuring the war he worked for the British secret service in Sierra Leone; afterward, he began wide-ranging travels as a journalist, which were reflected in novels such as \u003cb\u003eThe Quiet American\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eOur Man in Havana\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Comedians\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eTravels with My Aunt\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Honorary Consul\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Human Factor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eMonsignor Quixote\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003cb\u003eThe Captain and the Enemy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eAs well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, two books of autobiography, \u003cb\u003eA Sort of Life\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eWays of Escape\u003c\/b\u003e, two biographies, and four books for children. He also contributed hundreds of essays and film and book reviews to \u003cb\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/b\u003e and other journals, many of which appear in the late collection \u003cb\u003eReflections\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eMost of his novels have been filmed, including \u003cb\u003eThe Third Man\u003c\/b\u003e, which the author first wrote as a film treatment. Graham Greene was named Companion of Honour and received the Order of Merit among numerous other awards.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher Hitchens\u003c\/b\u003e was a contributing editor to \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair, Slate\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, and the author of numerous books, including works on Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and George Orwell. He also wrote the international bestsellers\u003ci\u003egod Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Hitch-22: A Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eArguably\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in 2011.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 197\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.42 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 31, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47376500261042,"sku":"9780142437919","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/aba38cd8dc9637d0cd7bb940bdfb1427.webp?v=1777704966","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/orient-express-an-entertainment-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}