Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Travels with My Aunt: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), (Paperback)

from BookAngel_a

This book was...interesting. I liked it a lot, but sometimes I had no idea what was going on - much like the main character. Henry Pulling has spent his whole life trying to be a respectable English gentleman. He's about 50, retired from the bank, never married. At his mother's funeral he meets h...

from TheAmpersand

I'd be pretty easy, not to mention tempting, to classify "Travels With My Aunt" as a novel about the comic collision of British middle-class conformity (Henry Pulling) and British eccentricity (Aunt Augusta). It's also one of those novels drawn from that period in late sixties or early seventies ...

from Steve38

What a wonderful tale. Combining the staid world of the retired bank manager with the glamourous, fantasy world of his aunt turned mother. Wistfulness, loneliness and longing matched against duty, routine and social standards of the middle classes. Snatches of the grey, relentless boredom of Brit...

from AlexTheHunn

This book delights and entertains as one may reasonably expect from Graham Greene. He spins a tale of a stodgey, middle-aged man who meets his Aunt Augusta at his mother's cremation at which event she informs him that she was once present at a Premature Cremation. Horrified and fascinated, he mus...

from Eyejaybee

Graham Greene will never be remembered as a great comic novelist. He was certainly adept at creating potentially humorous situations. In 'Our Man in Havana', for example, Wormald, an impecunious vacuum cleaner salesman is recruited as a low key agent to forward reports to MI6 about life in Castro...