Word: stamboul
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...Graham Greene Stamboul Train This thriller follows travelers on the Orient Express from Ostend, Belgium, to Constantinople. But railway officials rejected Greene's request for a free ride, and he could afford the trip only as far as Cologne. He extrapolated the rest, setting the last chapter near tourist sites featured in books...
...letter. Frank Harris, author of the social and erotic confession My Life and Loves (which had not yet been legally published in the U.S.), got the biographical treatment. The mood lightened with a couple dozen limericks, familiar to centuries of frat boys. The harlot from Kew, the man from Stamboul and the fellow from Kent all made guest appearances, but not, alas, the hermit named Dave...
...eagerness to make a living, sometimes before considering literary merits of his novellas, meant that Greene was comfortable writing both weighty literature and popular escapist fare like Stamboul Train, which he himself acknowledged he wrote purely for entertainment...