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Penny Fielding

Penny Fielding is Grierson Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, where she is codirector of Edinburgh Spy Week—a series of public events on espionage history and fiction. Her most recent book is The 1880s (Cambridge University Press, 2019). icon

B-Sides: Graham Greene’s “Stamboul Train”

By Penny Fielding

Strangers share a 1932 train ride from Belgium to Istanbul, a journey that reveals the dark changes already sweeping the continent.

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