Travels with My Aunt
by Graham Greene 
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A retired London bank manager is yanked out of the suburbs by his eccentric aunt for a "cheerfully irreverent" romp across Europe (The Guardian). Now that the dullish Henry Pulling has left his job with an agreeable pension and a firm handshake, he plans to spend more time weeding his dahlias. Then, for the first time in fifty years, he sees his aunt Augusta at his mother's funeral. Charging into her seventies with florid abandon, not a day of her life wasted, and her future as bright as her show more brilliant red hair, Augusta insists that Henry abandon his garden, follow her, and hold on tight. With that, she whisks her nephew out of Brighton and boards the Orient Express bound for Paris and Istanbul, then on to Paraguay, and down the rabbit hole of her past that swarms with swindlers, smugglers, war criminals, and rather unconventional lovers. With each new stop, Henry discovers not only more about his aunt and her secrets but also about himself as well. Pulsing with "the tragic and comic ironies of love, loyalty and belief" Graham Greene's deceptive lark of novel was made into the 1972 film starring Maggie Smith (The Times, London). Classic Literature. Literature. Fiction. show lessTags
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I'd be pretty easy, not to mention tempting, to classify "Travels With My Aunt" as a novel about the comic collision of British middle-class conformity (Henry Pulling) and British eccentricity (Aunt Augusta). It's also one of those novels drawn from that period in late sixties or early seventies in which people who'd been heretofore immersed in utterly unadventurous British culture were forced to reckon with new, strange cultural youth movements (Tooley). The passage of time seems to weigh heavily on Greene in this one: not only is much of the book about Henry Pulling's evolving relationship with his long-dead father, but the Europe he seems around him also seems to be transforming in unpredictable ways. The Orient Express is a ghost of show more its past self, while the Europe he sees from his train window is full of both bucolic scenes and new radio towers and apartment blocks. Currency restrictions still seem to be in place, though.
You could call it one of Greene's "entertainments," except that a fair amount of evil lurks around the novel's edges. It's not just that Aunt Augusta has a colorfully shady past, it's that her whims might have taken her into the orbit of some historically unpleasant people. Meanwhile Henry gets involved in businesses he wouldn't have touched as a bank manager in a comfortable London neighborhood, and his former potential paramour slowly gets used to a new way of looking at racial relations after she moves to South Africa. There's a part of me that thinks that "Travels With My Aunt" has something to say about how easy it is to slide into moral hazard when one escapes the cultural confines of a comfortable, well-regulated British existence. By the novel's end, Aunt Augusta is nicely settled and Henry has settled into a sort of peaceful retirement that he never expected. This book may not be as light as it seems, but I think it represents a pleasant blend of Greene's lighter and heavier themes. show less
You could call it one of Greene's "entertainments," except that a fair amount of evil lurks around the novel's edges. It's not just that Aunt Augusta has a colorfully shady past, it's that her whims might have taken her into the orbit of some historically unpleasant people. Meanwhile Henry gets involved in businesses he wouldn't have touched as a bank manager in a comfortable London neighborhood, and his former potential paramour slowly gets used to a new way of looking at racial relations after she moves to South Africa. There's a part of me that thinks that "Travels With My Aunt" has something to say about how easy it is to slide into moral hazard when one escapes the cultural confines of a comfortable, well-regulated British existence. By the novel's end, Aunt Augusta is nicely settled and Henry has settled into a sort of peaceful retirement that he never expected. This book may not be as light as it seems, but I think it represents a pleasant blend of Greene's lighter and heavier themes. show less
My wife and I both had vague but positive memories of having read "Travels With My Aunt" way back in the last century so we decided to give the audiobook version a try and refresh our memories.
Tim Pigott-Smith is the narrator and he gives a wonderful performance, providing just the right voices for the very wide range of characters in the book and getting the comic timing absolutely right.
The book has a strong, humorous start, as our hero encounters his septuagenarian aunt for the first time at his mother's funeral. She makes quite an impression, her larger than life unashamedly Boheme style serving to highlight the dreariness of her nephew's show more I-used-to-be-a-bank-manager-but-they-made-me-retire-in-my-fifties-and-now-I-tend-dahlias-and-try-not-to-go-quietly-insane way of life.
It's such a long time since I read this that I'd remembered some of the incidents from Aunt Agatha's life as short stories, without associating them with this book. She has some great stories and has had much practice in telling them. They reminded me of sherbet lemons, brittle and shiny on the outside but with a sugary-yet-bitter centre that leaves you wanting more.
I suspect my (much, much) younger self also failed to work out what exactly our hero's aunt did for a living until much later in the book than it became apparent this time. I was probably as slow as her somewhat dense nephew to work it out.
The first couple of journeys with his aunt, physical journeys and journeys into her remembered past, sparkled. Then we hit the 1960s version of the Orient Express and took a trip to Istambul. The train was drab and dreary and seemed to sap the energy from the chapters describing it.
The pace picked up again in Istambul but the novel never really recovered its sparkle. It is from this point on that our hero starts to lose his innocence.
In the hands of another writer, this stripping away of innocent assumptions and conclusions could have been joyous for everyone involved, with our hero being liberated from a conventional life by a life-affirming aunt. It seemed to me that Graham Greene decided to story in a different direction. Our retired bank manager has always followed the path of least resistance. Once this meant living up to the expectations of his employer and his clients, now it means living up to the expectations of his Aunt. His level of agency remains the same.
While I found the ending quite credible, I also found them dispiriting and slightly sleazy. It's as if Greene couldn't help adding the perception of sin to what could have been innocent fun.
I'm glad we re-read the book. I enjoyed listening to Tim Pigott-Smith but I found the book a bit patchy and slightly disappointing. show less
Tim Pigott-Smith is the narrator and he gives a wonderful performance, providing just the right voices for the very wide range of characters in the book and getting the comic timing absolutely right.
The book has a strong, humorous start, as our hero encounters his septuagenarian aunt for the first time at his mother's funeral. She makes quite an impression, her larger than life unashamedly Boheme style serving to highlight the dreariness of her nephew's show more I-used-to-be-a-bank-manager-but-they-made-me-retire-in-my-fifties-and-now-I-tend-dahlias-and-try-not-to-go-quietly-insane way of life.
It's such a long time since I read this that I'd remembered some of the incidents from Aunt Agatha's life as short stories, without associating them with this book. She has some great stories and has had much practice in telling them. They reminded me of sherbet lemons, brittle and shiny on the outside but with a sugary-yet-bitter centre that leaves you wanting more.
I suspect my (much, much) younger self also failed to work out what exactly our hero's aunt did for a living until much later in the book than it became apparent this time. I was probably as slow as her somewhat dense nephew to work it out.
The first couple of journeys with his aunt, physical journeys and journeys into her remembered past, sparkled. Then we hit the 1960s version of the Orient Express and took a trip to Istambul. The train was drab and dreary and seemed to sap the energy from the chapters describing it.
The pace picked up again in Istambul but the novel never really recovered its sparkle. It is from this point on that our hero starts to lose his innocence.
In the hands of another writer, this stripping away of innocent assumptions and conclusions could have been joyous for everyone involved, with our hero being liberated from a conventional life by a life-affirming aunt. It seemed to me that Graham Greene decided to story in a different direction. Our retired bank manager has always followed the path of least resistance. Once this meant living up to the expectations of his employer and his clients, now it means living up to the expectations of his Aunt. His level of agency remains the same.
While I found the ending quite credible, I also found them dispiriting and slightly sleazy. It's as if Greene couldn't help adding the perception of sin to what could have been innocent fun.
I'm glad we re-read the book. I enjoyed listening to Tim Pigott-Smith but I found the book a bit patchy and slightly disappointing. show less
Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta for the first time at his mother's funeral. She is a striking, unconventional woman in her seventies, with a younger lover and a penchant for travel. Henry is a bank manager, safe, conventional and dull. But he is soon swept up in Augusta's whirlwind life, learns about her past -- from Paris to Istanbul to Argentina -- and about his own as well.
This is a fun book. Aunt Augusta is really a character, constantly surprising her nephew with her frank attitude to romantic relationships, her seeming indifference to danger or sticky situations, and the sheer force of her personality. Henry's narration is smooth, methodical and introspective as he reflects on his previous life as a retired bank manager and show more the contrast with his travels. As the book progresses you can see him becoming more playful and warming to his new circumstances, realizing that the man he left behind in England is one to whom he cannot return.
One thing I really liked about Henry's character is his love of books. It is a nice serious aspect that remains unchanged throughout the story and gives him a bit of an anchor, at least in my mind, as Aunt Augusta sweeps him away. Here's an example of his thoughts on the subject:
"One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books that one learns about love and pain at second hand. Even if we have the happy chance to fall in love, it is because we have been conditioned by what we have read, and if I had never loved at all, perhaps it was because my father's library had not contained the right books."
I saw the movie before reading the book and enjoyed both. Dame Maggie Smith was the perfect choice for Aunt Augusta -- she was in my mind the whole way through. The plots differ significantly, although the first four chapters seemed to have made it into the movie intact. Still, they have the same sort of spirit and both are worth a look. I'd perhaps suggest reading the book first, though (as one usually does).
Recommended for those who like books about adventuresome ladies and/or serious-but-not-without-a-sense-of-fun protagonists. show less
This is a fun book. Aunt Augusta is really a character, constantly surprising her nephew with her frank attitude to romantic relationships, her seeming indifference to danger or sticky situations, and the sheer force of her personality. Henry's narration is smooth, methodical and introspective as he reflects on his previous life as a retired bank manager and show more the contrast with his travels. As the book progresses you can see him becoming more playful and warming to his new circumstances, realizing that the man he left behind in England is one to whom he cannot return.
One thing I really liked about Henry's character is his love of books. It is a nice serious aspect that remains unchanged throughout the story and gives him a bit of an anchor, at least in my mind, as Aunt Augusta sweeps him away. Here's an example of his thoughts on the subject:
"One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books that one learns about love and pain at second hand. Even if we have the happy chance to fall in love, it is because we have been conditioned by what we have read, and if I had never loved at all, perhaps it was because my father's library had not contained the right books."
I saw the movie before reading the book and enjoyed both. Dame Maggie Smith was the perfect choice for Aunt Augusta -- she was in my mind the whole way through. The plots differ significantly, although the first four chapters seemed to have made it into the movie intact. Still, they have the same sort of spirit and both are worth a look. I'd perhaps suggest reading the book first, though (as one usually does).
Recommended for those who like books about adventuresome ladies and/or serious-but-not-without-a-sense-of-fun protagonists. show less
Travels With My Aunt was first published in 1969 is a somewhat forgotten book of the many Graham Greene wrote. Some knowledge of events and traveling abroad for the British traveller in the mid twentieth century. Especially how much someone was allowed to travel with cash as there were limits to what you could take out of the UK and what you could bring into the country.
Even in the late 1960s foreign travel was not the norm for most all except for the privileged few. The package holiday was in the process of being created. This comedic tail is packed with anecdotes which helps to make this a hypnotic read. Greene’s writing creates moving portraits of the characters in this novel both sympathetic and tragic with a touch of irony.
Henry show more Pulling is a retired bank manager who has never really left Southwood, and his life is somewhat grey and the highlight the growing dahlias and his weekly game of bridge in the local conservative club. It is at his mother’s funeral that he meets his Aunt Augusta for the first time in fifty years.
In her eighth decade aunt Augusta is a breath of fresh air in Pulling’s life as she is completely mysterious to him. She has many stories and even suggests that his mother may not have given birth to him. First Augusta drags Pulling away from his grey life to Brighton and before he knows it he is in Paris and awaiting to depart on the Orient Express.
They are both kicked out of Istanbul as he slowly finds out more about Augusta’s colourful life across the European continent during the interwar years. When he does get back to Southwood, he tries to get his life back to ‘normal’, while he does this Augusta disappears from his life. When he next hears from her Pulling is being summoned by his aunt to Bueno Aries. Here he mixes with some very dubious characters and war criminals (German). While at the same time he makes friends with an American who happens to be a CIA agent and knows far more than he will ever admit too.
This is a funny novel full of colourful characters. Also pointing out that both the British and American intelligence agencies knew where Bormann and Mengle were after 1945 and until Mossad acted did nothing. show less
Even in the late 1960s foreign travel was not the norm for most all except for the privileged few. The package holiday was in the process of being created. This comedic tail is packed with anecdotes which helps to make this a hypnotic read. Greene’s writing creates moving portraits of the characters in this novel both sympathetic and tragic with a touch of irony.
Henry show more Pulling is a retired bank manager who has never really left Southwood, and his life is somewhat grey and the highlight the growing dahlias and his weekly game of bridge in the local conservative club. It is at his mother’s funeral that he meets his Aunt Augusta for the first time in fifty years.
In her eighth decade aunt Augusta is a breath of fresh air in Pulling’s life as she is completely mysterious to him. She has many stories and even suggests that his mother may not have given birth to him. First Augusta drags Pulling away from his grey life to Brighton and before he knows it he is in Paris and awaiting to depart on the Orient Express.
They are both kicked out of Istanbul as he slowly finds out more about Augusta’s colourful life across the European continent during the interwar years. When he does get back to Southwood, he tries to get his life back to ‘normal’, while he does this Augusta disappears from his life. When he next hears from her Pulling is being summoned by his aunt to Bueno Aries. Here he mixes with some very dubious characters and war criminals (German). While at the same time he makes friends with an American who happens to be a CIA agent and knows far more than he will ever admit too.
This is a funny novel full of colourful characters. Also pointing out that both the British and American intelligence agencies knew where Bormann and Mengle were after 1945 and until Mossad acted did nothing. show less
If Greene had still been categorizing his work as “entertainments” or “novels” when he wrote this one, it would have been an entertainment. The mood is light, even when, in the second half of the story, the feel turns a little darker and more mysterious.
The story’s main character is Henry Pulling, who lives a very quiet, almost cloisterish life in Southwood, a London suburb. Henry is a retired bank manager, having retired early, in his fifties, as a result of a banking merger. His life is comfortable, even a bit suffocatingly comfortable, until he meets his Aunt Augusta at his mother’s funeral.
Pretty quickly, Aunt Augusta gets to work (not necessarily intentionally) at waking Henry’s life up. She informs him that the show more woman whose funeral they’ve attended wasn’t actually his biological mother. And that’s something she divulges in an almost by-the-way manner, as if it’s just the beginning of things.
And it is. Henry’s Aunt Augusta has not lived the kind of quiet life he is used to. She’s traveled, she’s been with a succession of men, none of them her husband, she’s done shady things, and she’s even spent some time working in a brothel.
Aunt Augusta drafts Henry as a traveling companion, and the journey is, all at one time, a journey across Europe, a journey through Aunt Augusta’s colorful past, and a journey for Henry out of the womb in which he’s been living.
The first half of the book is about this collision between the life Henry has been living and the life that’s out there, in the more vibrant and more questionable territory Aunt Augusta has inhabited. Throughout, you feel as though Henry is an innocent adolescent rather than a retired banker in his fifties. As Aunt Augusta tells him, “You are a young man in your fifties.”
Aunt Augusta is headed somewhere herself. Her lost love, Mr. Visconti, is out there someplace, with the promise of at least a last go-around with the kind of exciting, shady-ish lifestyle she recounts to Henry in the stories of her life she tells while they cross Europe on the Orient Express.
For Henry, it’s like a coming out party. Aunt Augusta’s life is everything his has never been. And he even meets a young hippy girl, Tooley, on the train who shakes up his tepid romantic feelings toward the aptly named “Miss Keene” back home (Miss Keene has actually moved with her family to South Africa, but she’s still a potential late-life marriage partner for Henry). Tooley also introduces Henry to marijuana, which he naively accepts as the offer of one of her “cigarettes.”
It all ends up in South America, in Paraguay. I won’t say what happens there, but, like I did say, things turn a bit more mysterious and dark. And Henry isn’t the Henry we knew at the beginning of the story, and he knows he isn’t. So much for Miss Keene.
It’s a good story. It’s not The Power and the Glory, The Quiet American, or even Monsignor Quixote. But it is entertaining, and Henry’s transformation is thought-provoking — a kind of “coming of age” story of a man in his fifties. Maybe you’ll like who he becomes, and maybe you won’t, but he’s far from the innocent he was. show less
The story’s main character is Henry Pulling, who lives a very quiet, almost cloisterish life in Southwood, a London suburb. Henry is a retired bank manager, having retired early, in his fifties, as a result of a banking merger. His life is comfortable, even a bit suffocatingly comfortable, until he meets his Aunt Augusta at his mother’s funeral.
Pretty quickly, Aunt Augusta gets to work (not necessarily intentionally) at waking Henry’s life up. She informs him that the show more woman whose funeral they’ve attended wasn’t actually his biological mother. And that’s something she divulges in an almost by-the-way manner, as if it’s just the beginning of things.
And it is. Henry’s Aunt Augusta has not lived the kind of quiet life he is used to. She’s traveled, she’s been with a succession of men, none of them her husband, she’s done shady things, and she’s even spent some time working in a brothel.
Aunt Augusta drafts Henry as a traveling companion, and the journey is, all at one time, a journey across Europe, a journey through Aunt Augusta’s colorful past, and a journey for Henry out of the womb in which he’s been living.
The first half of the book is about this collision between the life Henry has been living and the life that’s out there, in the more vibrant and more questionable territory Aunt Augusta has inhabited. Throughout, you feel as though Henry is an innocent adolescent rather than a retired banker in his fifties. As Aunt Augusta tells him, “You are a young man in your fifties.”
Aunt Augusta is headed somewhere herself. Her lost love, Mr. Visconti, is out there someplace, with the promise of at least a last go-around with the kind of exciting, shady-ish lifestyle she recounts to Henry in the stories of her life she tells while they cross Europe on the Orient Express.
For Henry, it’s like a coming out party. Aunt Augusta’s life is everything his has never been. And he even meets a young hippy girl, Tooley, on the train who shakes up his tepid romantic feelings toward the aptly named “Miss Keene” back home (Miss Keene has actually moved with her family to South Africa, but she’s still a potential late-life marriage partner for Henry). Tooley also introduces Henry to marijuana, which he naively accepts as the offer of one of her “cigarettes.”
It all ends up in South America, in Paraguay. I won’t say what happens there, but, like I did say, things turn a bit more mysterious and dark. And Henry isn’t the Henry we knew at the beginning of the story, and he knows he isn’t. So much for Miss Keene.
It’s a good story. It’s not The Power and the Glory, The Quiet American, or even Monsignor Quixote. But it is entertaining, and Henry’s transformation is thought-provoking — a kind of “coming of age” story of a man in his fifties. Maybe you’ll like who he becomes, and maybe you won’t, but he’s far from the innocent he was. show less
At first one thinks Travels with my Aunt is a comic accounting of an author/narrator with an eccentric relative. It is: then it takes some peculiar and even murderous twists.
There is plenty of comedy, though, as we are set up for sudden shocks by the traveling companions, reticent retired bachelor banker, Henry Pulling and Augusta Bertram, a wildly uninhibited septuagenarian.
Much of the humor arises from Greene's descriptions: when describing a pair of American fellow-travelers serving tea, "One of them was raising a little bag, like a drowned animal, from his cup at the end of a cord. At that distressing sight I felt very far away from England ..." Or from Augusta's insouciance: " 'I can't call you Henry. It doesn't sound like a real show more name. Can I call you Smudge?'
'Why Smudge?'
' I had a dog once called Smudge. I used to talk to him a lot.' "
Much of the humor ends when Augusta's former lover, Nazi collaborator, Mr. Visconti enters into the picture.
Greene's writing never disappoints. This novel is no exception. show less
There is plenty of comedy, though, as we are set up for sudden shocks by the traveling companions, reticent retired bachelor banker, Henry Pulling and Augusta Bertram, a wildly uninhibited septuagenarian.
Much of the humor arises from Greene's descriptions: when describing a pair of American fellow-travelers serving tea, "One of them was raising a little bag, like a drowned animal, from his cup at the end of a cord. At that distressing sight I felt very far away from England ..." Or from Augusta's insouciance: " 'I can't call you Henry. It doesn't sound like a real show more name. Can I call you Smudge?'
'Why Smudge?'
' I had a dog once called Smudge. I used to talk to him a lot.' "
Much of the humor ends when Augusta's former lover, Nazi collaborator, Mr. Visconti enters into the picture.
Greene's writing never disappoints. This novel is no exception. show less
Greene's main character, Henry, is a former branch bank manager who has retired early and spends his waking hours tending to the dahlias in his garden, secure in his propriety. But at his mother's funeral he meets a long-lost aunt who lures him progressively out of his comfort zone.
The novel starts slowly, with little obvious plot, but incrementally, we realize that Aunt Augusta is engaged in behavior that she justifies as "minor offenses that hurt no one" but which also draw the attention of the authorities on three continents.
Greene is at his best in the final chapters, when Augusta lures her cousin to a remote town in Paraguay where she is holed up with a former lover who has a questionable past and an even more questionable plan to show more get rich, and Henry has to decide how much excitement he really wants in his life.
If there is a weakness in the novel it is that for Henry the stakes are not that high. There are no revolutions to join or spy rings to disrupt, merely some minor-league (and a little major) smuggling. There is also a coincidence Greene asks us to believe, that a fellow passenger on the Orient Express would turn out to have a relative in remote Paraguay who has control over Henry's fate.
But for me at least, Greene pulls it all together in the end. His hero is not all that memorable, but if taking charge of one's fate is heroic, then Henry makes the grade. show less
The novel starts slowly, with little obvious plot, but incrementally, we realize that Aunt Augusta is engaged in behavior that she justifies as "minor offenses that hurt no one" but which also draw the attention of the authorities on three continents.
Greene is at his best in the final chapters, when Augusta lures her cousin to a remote town in Paraguay where she is holed up with a former lover who has a questionable past and an even more questionable plan to show more get rich, and Henry has to decide how much excitement he really wants in his life.
If there is a weakness in the novel it is that for Henry the stakes are not that high. There are no revolutions to join or spy rings to disrupt, merely some minor-league (and a little major) smuggling. There is also a coincidence Greene asks us to believe, that a fellow passenger on the Orient Express would turn out to have a relative in remote Paraguay who has control over Henry's fate.
But for me at least, Greene pulls it all together in the end. His hero is not all that memorable, but if taking charge of one's fate is heroic, then Henry makes the grade. show less
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This marvelous line firmly establishes the mood of the book, which is unmistakably the work of the author whom the French call "Grim Grin."......
The book unmistakably turns its back on the Orphic preoccupations with the hereafter that characterized Greene's Catholic novels, and wholeheartedly embraces a Bacchic emphasis on the here and now. It is a remarkable change of emphasis to have made, show more and one which seems to deny the very works on which the novelist's reputation is conventionally supposed to rest. Greene makes the point with great wit, but it is clearly intended no less seriously for not being made with solemnity. show less
The book unmistakably turns its back on the Orphic preoccupations with the hereafter that characterized Greene's Catholic novels, and wholeheartedly embraces a Bacchic emphasis on the here and now. It is a remarkable change of emphasis to have made, show more and one which seems to deny the very works on which the novelist's reputation is conventionally supposed to rest. Greene makes the point with great wit, but it is clearly intended no less seriously for not being made with solemnity. show less
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Born in 1904, Graham Greene was the son of a headmaster and the fourth of six children. Preferring to stay home and read rather than endure the teasing at school that was a by-product of his father's occupation, Greene attempted suicide several times and eventually dropped out of school at the age of 15. His parents sent him to an analyst in show more London who recommended he try writing as therapy. He completed his first novel by the time he graduated from college in 1925. Greene wrote both entertainments and serious novels. Catholicism was a recurring theme in his work, notable examples being The Power and the Glory (1940) and The End of the Affair (1951). Popular suspense novels include: The Heart of the Matter, Our Man in Havana and The Quiet American. Greene was also a world traveler and he used his experiences as the basis for many books. One popular example, Journey Without Maps (1936), was based on a trip through the jungles of Liberia. Greene also wrote and adapted screenplays, including that of the 1949 film, The Third Man, which starred Orson Welles. He died in Vevey, Switzerland in 1991. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Henry Pulling; Augusta Bertram (Aunt); Zachary (aka 'Wordsworth'); Ercole Visconti; Tooley; Crowder (show all 10); Achille Dambreuse; Mario Visconti; Colonel Hakim; John Sparrow
- Important places
- Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK; Paris, Île-de-France, France; Milan, Lombardy, Italy; Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France; Paraguay; Istanbul, Turkey (show all 7); Orient Express
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- Travels with My Aunt (1972 | IMDb)
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- This were a fine reign:
To do ill and not hear of it again.
The witch of Edmonton - Dedication
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- I met my Aunt Augusta for the first time in more than half a century at my mother's funeral.
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- "I have never planned anything illegal in my life. How could I plan anything of the kind when I have never read any of the laws and have no idea what they are."
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)There is, of course, a considerable difference in our ages, but she is a gentle and obedient child, and often in the warm scented evenings we read Browning together.
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