Travels With My Aunt

Primality know for his somber novels of great moral dilemmas usually in developing world setting, "Travels with My Aunt" is something of a departure for the great Graham Greene. With its often absurdly situations this is a deeply comic novel rich in humor. The story centers on Henry Pulling, a recently retired banker. He is stuffy, unimaginative, and not one prone to fun. Shortly after he meets his eccentric aunt, who... Read Full Review

Mr Greene's novel is the story of Henry Pulling, a 50 year old retired bank manager who lives a quiet life in Southwood, passionately looking after his dahlias. Henry meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. She quickly persuades him to abandon his monotonous suburban life to join her and travel her way. And so they make their way first to Brighton and later to... Read Full Review

If you want to re-experience the joy of reading that you had as a child--when you couldn't put a book down, when you carried characters with you from day to day--this is one to read. It is about life and second chances and is an antidote to the rather 1984-ish world we are living in today: you experience that boundless life can never really be contained, nor a human life ever really circumscribed. I don't agree that it has... Read Full Review

Originally published in 1969, Penguin Classics recently published a centenial edition of Graham Greene's classic, TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT, on the 100th anniversary of his birth. Greene's entertaining novel follows Henry Pulling, a retired London bank manager, on his travels with his seventy-five year old Aunt Augusta, two of the most memorable characters in twentieth-century literature. Henry is a middle-aged bachelor-nerd,... Read Full Review