Stamboul Train

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That's some baggage there for all of us born Jewish whatever religion or philosophy we actually espouse. Whilst I have written a dozen books that are not about railways, I have written a dozen that are, including a history of the London Underground, a memoir of travels on European sleeper trains, and nine historical thrillers set on the Edwardian railways and beyond. It is structured by missed opportunities, relationships broken off or uncompleted, and unfulfilled political aspirations. This film manufactured from my book came last and was far and away the worst [of several others on the same theme], although not so bad as a later television production by the BBC. She is seen off by Mabel Warren, a terrifying lady journalist with an Eton crop, tweed suit, collar and tie.

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He is travelling because he is concerned that the firm's agent in Turkey, Eckman, has been cheating him. All down the restaurant-cars fell the sudden concerted silence which is said to mean that an angel passes overhead. I was also a bit confused about the route of the train, as according to Wikipedia, the train never followed the route of the book: Ostend - Cologne - Vienna - Budapest - Belgrade - Constantinople.The chief characters include Coral Musker, a chorus girl who develops a brief relationship with Carleton Myatt, a rich (Jewish) businessman (as Petra correctly notes, though this might not be seen as an anti-semitic portrayal, why is he identified as Jewish and no one else is identified as anything but English? The Quiet American (1956) acutely forecasts how blind American righteousness and European world-weariness would, in tandem, devastate Vietnam. From the library of Otis Skinner Blodget, the son of famed American actress Cornelia Otis Skinner, with his unattached bookplate laid in. Myatt, the Jewish merchant, is constantly shown checking his ledgers, considering costs, advantages to be gained, fanning his success before others like a well fed peacock, etc. Myatt has forgotten Coral, and climbed off his high horse with regard to what is happening in his business.

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John Pilkington looks at some of the reasons why authors throughout history have adopted pseudonyms, and wonders if it has something to do with the need to reinvent oneself. Young ingenue Englishwoman Coral Musker is going to take up a new job on the chorus line of a theatre in Istanbul. It takes a traditional plot, namely a group of passengers on a long train journey, all of whom have somewhat interesting pasts.In second class is Coral Musker, a plain, poor and sickly dancer, travelling to a chorus line job in Constantinople.

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Greene was one of the most popular authors of the twentieth century, known for his works 'Brighton Rock', 'The End of the Affair' and 'Our Man in Havana'. Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, it's more like having a well-read friend than a subscription to a literary review. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. The novel focuses on the lives of individuals aboard a luxury express making a three-day journey from Ostend to Istanbul (although Greene uses the old name for the city, Constantinople). Our incognito communist, Dr Richard Czinner, after a dramatic escape and many subsequent dreary years of exile, hopes to lead a communist revolution back in his homeland, Yugoslavia.A solid example of this collection of superb Green novels, which despite the slightly untidy jacket looks very presentable on the shelf in the fitted archival cover. First edition, second issue, with Quin Savory on page 78 and elsewhere; there are only a few known copies of the first issue. The epigraph given the book is from George Santayana, "Everything is lyrical in its ideal essence; tragic in its fate and comic in its existence", which indicates its ambivalence of mood. The first issue is indeed rarely seen as only few copies of the uncorrected text were circulated and even less survive today.

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Stamboul Train takes its place among other 20th-century novels in which espionage and wartime secrecy are glimpsed through a lens that obscures motives and renders people uncanny. Jewish businessman Carleton Myatt needs to sort out a crisis in the Constantinople branch of his currant enterprise.Exposed to casual antisemitism from the start, he comes under real threat when faced with populations further east: "In the small hungry eyes shone hatred and a desire to kill; it was as if all the oppressions, the pogroms, the chains, and the envy and superstition which caused them, had been herded into a dark cup of the earth and now he stared down at them from the rim. Coral Musker, a chorus girl, hopes to keep hunger and extreme poverty at bay with a new singing and dancing act in Istanbul. In Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, the plot comes to a doubly satisfying conclusion, when Poirot assembles all the suspects in the dining car and reveals the culprit … They all did it!