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Henry Pulling, 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, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society coming alive after a dull suburban lifetime.

"I met Aunt Augusta for the first time at my mother's funeral..."

Greene's fine sense of humor is displayed in this warm and far-reaching comic novel, Travels with My Aunt , a bestseller when it appeared originally. At his mother's funeral, Henry Pulling, a stuffy, retired bank manager with an interest in dahlias, meets his Aunt Augusta. The... Read Full Overview