Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mothers funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to bandon Southwood, his dahlias and the Major next door to travel herway, Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay..Through Aunt Augusta, a veteran of Europes hotel bedrooms. Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society: mixing with hippies, war criminals, CIA men; smoking pot, breaking allthe currency regulations....coming alive after a dul suburbian lifetime. In TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT Graham Greene not onlygives us intoxicating entertainment but also confronts us with some ofthe most perplexing of human dilemmas.
El Doctor Fischer de Ginebra es una de las novelas, pese a su brevedad, más intensas y desde luego crueles de Graham Greene. Obra peculiar, en ella el amor y la pasión son también la maldad y las bajas pasiones, dejando claro que la frontera entre estar enamorado y ser bueno es mayuscula, casi tanto como la distancia que existe entre el culto y refinado Doctor Fischer y su yerno, que asiste atonito a una filosofia segun la cual todo lo puede el dinero, y cualquier cosa y cualquier hombre tiene un precio.
Graham Greene's gripping tragicomedy of a bungled kidnapping in a provincial Argentinian town is considered one of his finest. It tells of Charley Fortnum, the 'Honorary Consul', a whisky-sodden figure of dubious authority taken by a group of revolutionaries. As Eduardo Plarr, a local doctor, negotiates with revolutionaries and authorities for Fortnum's release, the corruption of both becomes evident. In this spare, tense novel, Graham Greene explores the morality of a political system that turns priests into killers.
Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt 'Papa Doc' and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American and Jones the confidence man - these are the 'comedians' of Graham Greene's title. Hiding behind their actors' masks, they hesitate on the edge of life. And, to begin with, they are men afraid of love, afraid of pain, afraid of fear itself...
El factor humà és, en certa manera, un paradigma excelálent de les noveláles de Graham Greene: intriga i espionatge, conflictes entre els països desenvolupats i el tercer món i, sobretot, estudi psic
Cansada de su marido, Sarah Miles desaparece a menudo de casa sin que nadie sepa donde pasa su tiempo. Lo que no podía imaginar es que fuera un viejo amante, el escritor Maurice Bendrix, quien contratara a un investigador privado para que la siguiera. Una apasionante historia de adulterio, celos y remordimientos, llevada rencientemente a la pantalla por el director Neil Jordan.
With his Sancho Panza a deposed Communist mayor, his faithful Rocinant e an antiquated motor car, Monsignor Quixote roams through modern-day Spain in a brilliant picaresque fable that, like Cervantes classic, o ffers enduring insights into our life and times.
Un ambicioso comerciante británico es captado por el Foreign Office para recabar información sobre la Cuba de Batista para el gobierno. Viendo una ocasión inmejorable para aumentar sus ingresos y satisfacer los caprichos de su hija (huerfana de madre), empieza a crear falsos sub-agentes y a inventar informes sin ningun interes. Naturalmente, esto va a despertar sospechas y va a ponerlo en una dificil situacion frente a su gobierno.
VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindHenry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, to travel to Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay, and a shiftless, twilight society of hippies, war criminals, CIA men that will help Henry come alive after a dull suburban life.. NOTA: El libro no esta en español, sino en ingles.
