Travels with My Aunt (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
by Graham Greene
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0140185011
- ISBN 13
- 9780140185010
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Penguin, 1977. Paperback. 26th printing. Very Good+. Interior pristine. Spine tight and uncreased with slight tilt. Cover clean and bright. Mild edgewear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 265 pages.
At his mother's funeral a retired bank manager meets his old aunt for the first time in over 50 years. She persuades him to travel with her. Through his aunt, a veteran of Europe's hotel bedrooms, he joins a shiftless, twilight society coming alive after a dull suburban lifetime.
At his mother's funeral a retired bank manager meets his old aunt for the first time in over 50 years. She persuades him to travel with her. Through his aunt, a veteran of Europe's hotel bedrooms, he joins a shiftless, twilight society coming alive after a dull suburban lifetime.
Synopsis
Travels with My Aunt (1969) is a novel written by British author Graham Greene. The novel follows the travels of Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, and his eccentric Aunt Augusta as they find their way across Europe, and eventually even further afield. Aunt Augusta pulls Henry away from his quiet suburban existence into a world of adventure, crime and the highly-unconventional details of her past.
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- Bookseller
- Books of the World (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000000103
- Title
- Travels with My Aunt (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
- Author
- Graham Greene
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0140185011
- ISBN 13
- 9780140185010
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- fiction, British, Britain, travel, travelers, retirees, aunts, women travelers, older women
- Bookseller catalogs
- Exploration, Expeditions, and Discoveries; Fiction; Europe; Britain;
- Size
- 12mo
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