About this title: In Graham Greene's comic novel a staid middle-aged bank manager, newly retired, has his life rearranged by his eccentric, freewheeling elderly aunt Augusta. Henry Pulling has very modest expectations when he agrees to a holiday on the Continent with Aunt Augusta, but the trip turns into something he is, to say the least, not prepared for. Augusta, ...
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. 0143039008 NOTE PLEASE READ BEFORE PURCHASE! ! For classes, page numbers may not be the same--Earlier Penguin paperback same content exactly-Aside from newer introduction/Afterward, original text has never changed, Standard Used Condition, some cover wear, different cover, No writing or Highlighting, some minor spine creases, minor age tan-well bound and solid, sold for content. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 2004-09-15
ISBN-13:9780143039006ISBN:0143039008
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780143039006ISBN:0143039008
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780143039006ISBN:0143039008
Description: Good. Cover and pages may have some wear or writing. Binding is tight. We ship daily Monday-Friday. Delivery Confirmation included on all domestic orders. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780143039006ISBN:0143039008
Description: Like New. An excellent copy. xvi, 254 pages. "A novel which follows a man who embarks on a journey around the world with his elderly yet adventurous aunt, visiting locations such as Paris and Paraguay, mixing with hippies, war criminals and CIA Agents. From the author of Our Man in Havana. " read more
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"Staid & proper, newly retired English bank manager Henry embarks on journeys with his re-discovered, comically-tragic and colorful older Aunt Augusta. Her influence and life story open his eyes, mind & heart to life's possibilities - beyond the mediocre & methodical - and mostly, beyond tending dahlias in the safety of his beloved English countryside. Great characters and travel exotica - a nice read that clips right along. Plus, I just have a thing for the author's name."
"Who in the world could use a big shake more than the stodgy Henry Pulling? Henry never married and spent his life locked up behind the safe and tedious walls of a bank. Then, at his mother's funeral, Henry met his Aunt Augusta and he was sent spinning out into a world he never knew existed.
Graham Greene is that Graham Greene, he of The Power and the Glory and Our Man in Havana and The Quiet American. So Travels With My Aunt is a totally different Graham Greene. Every chapter had me. I now have a new gloriously inspiring role model for my last years."
"This was very enjoyable! It's about a man who was startled, sucker-punched and sucked into life's great surprise (or trick.. it was funny!). I miss Aunt Agusta already. There's a lot of heart in Travels with My Aunt."
"I have mixed feelings about this book--it was recommended to me highly by a friend, and I could totally see why: Greene is a master of his prose (check out the opening lines) and there were brilliant chapters in the novel. The characters were great--this is an example of how if you can write great characters, a reader will stay loyal to your novel out of a pure desire to follow them for hundreds of pages. But the plot was sort of lacking (I skipped entire chapters out of impatience with the slowgoing plot and was able to move forward without being lost). And there were coincidences galore (one character pops up at the most convenient moments only to exit very conveniently as well...and people are coincidentally related to each other--and I won't reveal who/how). But still worth a read, though not Greene's best--this is an example of how brilliant prose and great characters can overcome shortcomings (like an overabundance of convenient coincidences).
The best line in the book: "I felt hopelessly abroad."
Opening lines:
"I met my Aunt August for the first time in more than half a century at my mother's funeral. My mother was approaching eighty-six when she died, and my aunt was some eleven or twelve years younger. I had retired from the bank two years before with an adequate pension and a silver handshake. There had been a take-over by the Westminster and my branch was considered redundant. Everyone thought me lucky, but I found it difficult to occupy my time. I have never married, I have always lived quietly, and, apart from my interest in dahlias, I have no hobby. For those reasons I found myself agreeably excited by my mother's funeral.""
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