Graham Greene

Travels with My Aunt

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Produktbeschreibung

Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, his dahlias and the Major next door to travel her way, through Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay...

Produktdetails

• Vintage Classics
• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 114253, 601062
• 1999.
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 130mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 194g
• ISBN-13: 9780099282587
• ISBN-10: 0099282585
• Artikelnr.: 22048542

Autorenporträt

Graham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the Spectator. He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991.

Rezensionen

The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists - V S Pritchett, The Times