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Travels with My Aunt (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Paperback – Illustrated, September 28, 2004

by Graham Greene (Author), Gloria Emerson (Introduction)
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"I met Aunt Augusta for the first time at my mother's funeral..."
 
Described by Graham Greene as "the only book I have written just for the fun of it," Travels with My Aunt is the story of Hanry Pulling, a retired and complacent bank manager who meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. She soon persuades Henry to abandon his dull suburban existence to travel her way—winding through Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, and Paraguay. Through Aunt Augusta, one of Greene's greatest comic creations, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society; mixes with hippies, war criminals, and CIA men; smokes pot; and breaks all currency regulations.
 
Originally published in 1970, Travels with My Aunt offers intoxicating entertainment, yet also confronts some of the most perplexing human dilemmas. This Penguin Deluxe Edition features an introduction by Gloria Emerson.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Graham Greene (1904-1991), whose long life nearly spanned the length of the twentieth century, was one of its greatest novelists. Educated at Berkhamsted School and Balliol College, Oxford, he started his career as a sub-editor of the London Times. He began to attract notice as a novelist with his fourth book, Orient Express, in 1932. In 1935, he trekked across northern Liberia, his first experience in Africa, told in A Journey Without Maps (1936). He converted to Catholicism in 1926, an edifying decision, and reported on religious persecution in Mexico in 1938 in The Lawless Roads, which served as a background for his famous The Power and the Glory, one of several “Catholic” novels (Brighton Rock, The Heart of the Matter, The End of the Affair). During the war he worked for the British secret service in Sierra Leone; afterward, he began wide-ranging travels as a journalist, which were reflected in novels such as The Quiet American, Our Man in Havana, The Comedians, Travels with My Aunt, The Honorary Consul, The Human Factor, Monsignor Quixote, and The Captain and the Enemy. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, two books of autobiography, A Sort of Life and Ways of Escape, two biographies, and four books for children. He also contributed hundreds of essays and film and book reviews to The Spectator and other journals, many of which appear in the late collection Reflections. Most of his novels have been filmed, including The Third Man, which the author first wrote as a film treatment. Graham Greene was named Companion of Honour and received the Order of Merit among numerous other awards.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Classics; Reprint edition (September 28, 2004)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 254 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0143039008
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0143039006
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 880L
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.1 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.7 x 0.7 x 8.4 inches
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Henry Graham Greene OM CH (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English novelist and author regarded by some as one of the great writers of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer, both of serious Catholic novels, and of thrillers (or "entertainments" as he termed them). He was shortlisted, in 1967, for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Through 67 years of writings, which included over 25 novels, he explored the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world, often through a Catholic perspective.

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Mary Kellogg
5.0 out of 5 stars Breathtaking
Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2022
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Moving story of love and life. Written with depth, humor, and a deep understanding of the human condition. This is a story one can read over and over again, finding something new and different each time.
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M. Feldman
4.0 out of 5 stars Celebrating all the way . . .
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Prim Henry Pulling, retired British bank manager, lifelong bachelor, and fussy tender of dahlias, turns out to have a wild and crazy Aunt Augusta. They meet at his mother's funeral, but it turns out that Auntie A. has been keeping her eye on Henry for a while. No sooner are his mother's ashes in the urn, than
she begins to lead him into down the primrose path. And who better do this than a woman whose professional career appears to have been that of a madam?

However, this book, intended to be comical, is not exactly a side-splitter. Characters are hackneyed, the humor a bit dated. However, the twisting plot eventually gets so nutty that you just have to give in to it and enjoy the road trip that becomes a train trip that becomes a sea and river trip and ends up in (where else?) Paraguay.

Given a choice between thinking about the passage from midlife to death à la Julian Barnes (the weighty pronouncements of "Nothing to be Frightened Of") and thinking about it à la Graham Greene, I'll take "Travels with My Aunt" any day. Might as well have fun.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Nobody is what it seems
Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2016
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This is a curious novel. Until now I had read only thrillers and spy novels by Graham Greene. I have said “curious” because this I not an ordinary plot. At first you can define neither what it is about nor what the gender is.
The novel deals with travels but starts with a burial. There is a guy, Henry, in his middle fifties, not married, not engaged to anyone, lonely man, retired from his job. He used to be a banker but now he is retired. When the novel starts, he only has a hobby: gardening Dhalias.
The burial day of his mother (Angelica), at the church, he meets his aunt Augusta, his mothers’ sister, whom he hasn’t seen for decades. They talk about the burial, the Angelica’s ashes and where is he going to put them. Augusta invites Henry to visit her after the burial.
The visit turns to be a strange nightmare. Augusta, who is seventy five or more, lives with a black guy in his thirties who deals with drugs. This guy is called Wordsworth, from the name of an old poet. Henry forgets the urn with the ashes and Wordsworth takes advantage from this by putting pod (some drug), in fact, hiding it, in the ashes. Harry, who doesn’t know, comes back to recover the ashes and after that, the Police asks him about drugs and so on… in the end, his innocence is clear and Wordsworth clears out just in time.
Augusta and Henry start travelling, first to Istanbul. During the trip, Augusta tells Henry about his parents. His father used to be a very lazy person but also a sex addict. And his mother was not his mother. She married the Henry’s father only to save him, who had a newborn son whom his real mother couldn’t keep. We can infer that the mother is Augusta, actually.
One of the main interests in the novel is the conversations between Augusta and Henry. Augusta tells Henry how has been like her life. She has travelled a lot, she has had a great number of relations, and she has worked as a dancer, but this is not very clear, actually. In fact, the reader suspects that she used to be more or less an exclusive Escort or prostitute. Well, tha'ts all I want to say in order to pull your interest...
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5.0 out of 5 stars A lovely, quirky story
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I’ve always liked this story. It’s such a different type of work than this writer usually does, yet features the same clever plotting, deft descriptions, and rich character depictions as his other work. It’s a joy to travel along with the narrator as he is in some ways reborn, slowly shedding a lifetime of rules and habits.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Indelible Memories Of Travel
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Graham Greene is a dependably evocative and thoughtful writer, deftly combining plot and characters to create indelible recounted memories from the perspective of a middle-aged English retired banker who enjoys growing flowers. Travels with My Aunt, takes the main characters on a madcap journey from London and Paris on the Orient Express to Turkey, and subsequently, across the Atlantic to Argentina and Paraguay. The protagonist ends up far outside of his comfort zone but eventually achieves a measure of acceptance. If the story seems to end somewhat abruptly, the final paragraphs are pregnant with meaning.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I'm a decades long fan of Graham Greene since I first discovered him all that long time ago!
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2016
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I'm a fan of Graham Greene from decades ago;quoting him in a comment I wrote to them got me published in the New York Times Sunday magazine's letters to the editor's section on what is the best kind of love on Sunday, March 29, 1992 under my real name, Donna Lee! See my books here on amazon.com's Kindle store by typing in my name, Donna Lee, into their search bar under their Kindle Store. All my books have black and green covers; there are about 17 of them since 2012! I DIDN'T publish any health books there although I know a lot about that too! Please also see my 2009 Pulitzer contender on amazon.com NOT on their Kindle store anymore entitled, Nowheresville, Everywhere, Earth! Finally, please see my YouTube channel here: [...] from "Donna's International Garden of Eros!" "The Queen of Hearts!" as I've taken to singing myself lately! "May your delights be timeless!" quote by Sonja Edison Creative Director/Editor U.S. Philatelic Catalogue.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The brighter side of Greene
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While I am more comfortable with Greene's more serious books, there is no denying that the Travels with my aunt is also a masterpiece. It delivers Greene's very characteristic humour within the settings of a light and funny story.
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The nerve of these people! This is the my most shocking acquisition on amazon ever. It is a hardcover book which, at first glance looks sort of decent (only sort of), but as soon as you open it, you discover that you have been taken for an idiot! Inside you find the entire thing is made up of xeroxed pages of the real book bound together by a thick third rate book cover. AMAZING SCAM!!!
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The nerve of these people! This is the my most shocking acquisition on amazon ever. It is a hardcover book which, at first glance looks sort of decent (only sort of), but as soon as you open it, you discover that you have been taken for an idiot! Inside you find the entire thing is made up of xeroxed pages of the real book bound together by a thick third rate book cover. AMAZING SCAM!!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars a Vintage Masterpiece
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