Travels With my Aunt (The collected edition, #20) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions) (Vintage Voyages)

by Graham Greene

Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his old aunt for the first time in over 50 years. She persuades him to travel with her. Through his aunt, a veteran of Europe's hotel bedrooms, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society coming alive after a dull suburban lifetime.

• ISBN10: 035330199X
• ISBN13: 9780353301993
• Publish Date: 11 November 2018 (first published December 1969)
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: Franklin Classics Trade Press
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 540
• Language: English

Reviews

[brokentune]

I laughed out loud so many times reading this book.

It is sublime and it is subversive, and the dialogue between Aunt Augusta and Henry actually reminds me of some conversations I have had with my great-uncle, whose stories have influenced me in a similar way that Henry has been affected by his Aunt – except, of course, that neither of has been involved in smuggling, founding religious groups, or “the stage”... well, at least not that I know of. I should give him a ring again soon.

Having read [b:The Heart of the Matter|3692|The Heart of the Matter|Graham Greene|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1385263150s/3692.jpg|3266950] and [b:The End of the Affair|29641|The End of the Affair|Graham Greene|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1328010344s/29641.jpg|267229], I am glad though that this is not the first of Greene’s novels I turned to, as Travels With My Aunt seems to be quite different. It’s [b:Our Man in Havana|133394|Our Man in Havana|Graham Greene|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1327926887s/133394.jpg|1912267] next for me to delve into his spy novels.