Travels with My Aunt

Some persons are like cats and some – like mice… …and in any case I have a weakness for funerals. People are generally seen at their best on these occasions, serious and sober, and optimistic on the subject of personal immortality. Graham Greene has at once won my attention with his subtle irony – for......more

Clever and witty, a character driven novel written in a crisp clean style. Fun comes from the interplay between stodgy Henry and his outrageous Aunt. Told through Henry’s eyes, a cautious man recently retired from banking who never married, whose passion has never extended beyond the growing of dahl......more

On a superficial level, this is a tale about Henry, a retired, timid bank manager from London, who learns how to live it up from his adventurous, sexually liberated septuagenarian aunt, a woman so outrageous that she is almost a trickster character. But this would be a rather simplistic reading of t......more

Título original:Travels With My Aunt Será que Graham Green se divertiu tanto a escrever este livro como eu a lê-lo? Henry Pulling,50 anos, funcionário bancário reformado, no dia do enterro da mãe reencontra a tia que o convence a abandonar o seu jardim de dálias em Southwood e a viajar por Brighton, P......more

"She was one of the life-givers." Aunt Augusta is just that. So is this book. Here's why. 1. Makes me like characters I didn't at first. 2. Nothing cliched or foreseeable or formulaic. 3. Realistic dialogue. 4. Believable though bizarre happenings. 5. Made me laugh. 6. Made me think. I closed it with the t......more