Graham Greene Travels with My Aunt

About Travels with My Aunt

Graham Greene's Travels with My Aunt (1969) is his most comic novel — Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager of no imagination, pulled into a life of adventure by his eccentric Aunt Augusta, who has spent decades involved in smuggling, drugs, and international crime. Greene's holiday from his own moral seriousness, a picaresque comedy organized around the contrast between Henry's total conventionality and Augusta's total unconventionality — one of the most purely enjoyable novels in his career.