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Travels With My Aunt
- Author
- Graham Greene
- Narrator
- Tim Pigott-Smith
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 24 April 2025
- Run Time
- 9 hours 28 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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'The only book I have ever written just for the fun of it' Graham Greene
Greene proves a wonderful storyteller in this hilarious tale of the eccentricity of families and the pomposity of the middle class.
Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, his dahlias and the Major next door to travel her way, Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay. Through Aunt Augusta, a veteran of Europe's hotel bedrooms, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society: mixing with hippies, war criminals, CIA men; smoking pot, breaking all the currency regulations and eventually coming alive after a dull suburban life.
In Travels With My Aunt Graham Greene not only gives us intoxicating entertainment but also confronts us with some of the most perplexing of human dilemmas.
© Graham Greene 1969 (P) Penguin Audio 2025
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Details
- Author
- Graham Greene
- Narrator
- Tim Pigott-Smith
- Duration
- 9 hours 28 minutes
- Release Date
- 24 April 2025
- ISBN
- 9781529963267
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Classic fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Journeys and voyages, Humorous fiction
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.'The only book I have ever written just for the fun of it' Graham GreeneGreene proves a wonderful storyteller in this hilarious tale of the eccentricity of families and the pomposity of the middle class.Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, his dahlias and the Major next door to travel her way, Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay. Through Aunt Augusta, a veteran of Europe's hotel bedrooms, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society: mixing with hippies, war criminals, CIA men; smoking pot, breaking all the currency regulations and eventually coming alive after a dull suburban life.In Travels With My Aunt Graham Greene not only gives us intoxicating entertainment but also confronts us with some of the most perplexing of human dilemmas.© Graham Greene 1969 (P) Penguin Audio 2025
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