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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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Penguin Classics (September 28, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0143039008
ISBN-13: 978-0143039006
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 0.8 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars Alistair Maclean written by Barbara Pym - bon voyage!, January 25, 2001

By	darragh o'donoghue (dublin, ireland) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

This review is from: Travels with My Aunt (Paperback)

'Travels' is not a great novel, not even a great Graham Greene novel. It is flawed, mannered, contrived, old-fashioned, complacent; the work of a writer who has earned his laurels and is content to lounge on them. The frequent allusions to then-modish Latin American fiction (the novel ends up in Paraguay) only exposes its lack of adventurousness. Sometimes you wonder whether the maddening primness is the narrator's or the author's. Too often, Greene resorts to caricature rather than character, and even the splendid figure of Aunt Augusta feels like a writerly short-cut.

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'Travels' is one of the most purely pleasurable books I have ever read, largely due to the perfectly captured narrative voice, a middle-aged virgin, retired bank manager and dahlia expert unwittingly thrown into a world of smuggling, soft drugs, hippies, war criminals, CIA operatives, military dictatorships, and whose decent, limited tolerance keeps the fantastic narrative believable, but also blinds him to genuine horrors.

The book contains some of Greene's funniest writing; if he'd written it 30 years earlier he's have called it an 'entertainment', those more generic or populist works that weren't overtly concerned with great moral themes. Today, these entertainments seem to have dated better than the 'serious' books.

Of course, 30 years on and Greene can relax his style - the plot is less vice-like, the words don't imprison - rather, they eloquently express a developing consciousness and sensibility. This is a story that proliferates with stories, some comic, some tragic, some parable-lie, all leading inexorably towards one untold story. Like all Greene's novels, 'Travels' concerns modern man's search for home, and the ending is devastating, mixing imagistic beauty with characteristically flat cynicism.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A triumphant comedy, March 9, 2005

By	Philippe Horak (Zug, Switzerland) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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 Paris, Istanbul and Paraguay. Through her aunt Henry gets acquainted with a twilight society, hippies, war criminals and CIA agents. He learns to smoke pot and to smuggle large amounts of money from one country to the next.
The character of Aunt Augusta is very witty indeed: she is wicked, selfish, wildly engaging, an old "belle de nuit" who likes men "who have a bit of the hound in them", a quality her nephew obviously lacks, which adds to her bewilderment. It is a feminine character, Aunt Augusta, who takes charge of the story, a rare fact for Mr Greene. She becomes a fierce, bossy and intrusive mother figure for Henry. Indeed he ends up by understanding and calling her "mother" a few lines before the end of the novel as he lays his head on his aunt's breast, feeling like a boy again who has run away from school and will never have to return. Finally Henry is completely transformed by his aunt and, at 50, begins to blossom. He sees her differently and acknowledges that she is not as wicked as he first considered her. In a prison cell in Paraguay, Henry notes: "I would certainly have called her career shady myself nine months ago and yet now there seemed nothing so very wrong in her curriculum vitae, nothing as wrong as 30 years in a bank."

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5.0 out of 5 stars "What have we been smoking, Aunt Augusta?", October 27, 2004

By	G. Merritt (Boulder, CO) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

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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, who reads Thackeray and Sir Walter Scott, while cultivating dahlias for entertainment. Aunt Augusta, by contrast, is a wild, old belle de nuit, who has literally been around the world a time or two. Upon the death of Henry's eighty-six year old mother, Aunt Augusta pulls Henry from his mundane existence into her bizarre world of smuggling, smoking pot, hippies, war criminals, CIA operatives, and South American dictatorships. While travelling the world together, they encounter other memorable characters like Wordsworth, a dope smuggler with an affection for Aunt Augusta ("She war my bebi gel," he says; "now she gon bust ma heart in bits" p. 201), and a groovy hippie-girl named Tooley, who turns Henry on to some "very mild" cigarettes she got in Paris. By the end of the novel, Henry becomes addicted to his new life of adventure, and even makes a surprising discovery about his "aunt" Augusta. (Readers won't be as surprised.) In the carpe diem genre of literature, Greene's message in this delightful novel is to live life to its fullest before it's too late.

G. Merritt

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3.0 out of 5 stars Quaint, mildly funny
Since the story has been summarized by others many times, there is no point in repeating it.
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Published 6 days ago by A. Scarlat

4.0 out of 5 stars Lucky I don't have an Aunt Augusta
Public fame and several commentaries about this book made me expect an "entertainment", as Greene himself called his more generic or relaxed books. Read more

Published 2 months ago by Guillermo Maynez

4.0 out of 5 stars It's Graham Greene, of course . . .
Graham Greene is probably my favorite author. True to form, Travels with My Aunt is rich with dry, intelligent humor (sometimes not so dry), and subtle sharp wit... Read more

Published 7 months ago by C. J. Leach

4.0 out of 5 stars Gems in a Somewhat Rusty Setting
This is the first book by Graham Greene that I read, largely because my local library did not have "The Power and the Glory. Read more

Published 13 months ago by Jacob Schriftman

5.0 out of 5 stars "and I envied him his inexplicable quality of drawing women's love."
Another well-written novel by Graham Greene, "Travels With My Aunt" is a complete entertainment. "Travels" is one of Greene's less known novels. Read more

Published 13 months ago by Saad Butt

4.0 out of 5 stars English old-world comedy of manners
Rambling, very English old-world comedy of manners and mismatched relations. Henry Pulling renews a long-neglected acquaintance with his aunt at his mother's funeral, whereupon... Read more

Published 13 months ago by Todd Stockslager

2.0 out of 5 stars Weird - the movie is actually better than the book
The movie creates a reason for the relationship, and adds some elements of drama. The book is pretty lame.

Published 16 months ago by Marshal Berthier

5.0 out of 5 stars Surely a masterpiece
Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene

Henry Pulling is a recently retired bank manager. Read more

Published 19 months ago by Philip Spires

4.0 out of 5 stars Dragged Away From His Dahlias
"Travels with My Aunt" was penned by its greatly praised British author Graham Greene rather late in his long life, and his long, prolific, greatly-honored literary career. Read more

Published on August 12, 2007 by Stephanie DePue

4.0 out of 5 stars An enlightening way to spend an afternoon!
I picked this up despite my negative memories of Graham Greene from high school & college reading, and I can honestly say that I enjoyed this book. Read more

Published on August 22, 2006 by Busy Mom

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