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.

A witty, inventive read with anyone for a passion for travel. 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 mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, his dahlias and the Major next door to travel her way, Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay. Through ...(展开全部)

格雷厄姆•格林（Graham Greene，1904-1991）英国作家、剧作家、文学评论家。一生获得21次诺贝尔文学奖提名（但终未获奖），被誉为诺贝尔文学奖评选史上“最大的输家”。文学界形容其风格为“格林国度”（Greeneland）。他被誉为20世纪最严肃、最悲观、最具宗教意识的作家，可同时又是讲故事的圣手，是20世纪整个西方世界最具明星效应的大师级作家之一。他的作品探讨了当今世界充满矛盾的政治和道德问题，将通俗文学和严肃文学有机地结合在一起，获得了广泛好评。

(Twentieth Century Classics)

From the master of literary reportage whose acclaimed books include Shah of Shahs, The Emperor, and The Shadow of the Sun, an intimate account of his first youthful forays beyond the Iron Curtain. Just out of university in 1955, Kapuscinski told his editor that he’d like to go abroad. Dreaming no farther than Czechoslovakia, the young reporter found himself sent to India. Wi...(展开全部)

From the master of literary reportage whose acclaimed books include Shah of Shahs, The Emperor, and The Shadow of the Sun, an intimate account of his first youthful forays beyond the Iron Curtain. Just out of university in 1955, Kapuscinski told his editor that he’d like to go abroad. Dreaming no farther than Czechoslovakia, the young reporter found himself sent to India. Wi...(展开全部)

From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales. In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent, hoping to go abroad – perhaps to Czechoslovakia. Instead, he was sent to India – the firs...(展开全部)

From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales. In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent, hoping to go abroad – perhaps to Czechoslovakia. Instead, he was sent to India – the firs...(展开全部)

愛德華．鮑威爾和專橫的姑媽住在家鄉的祖宅。他嫌惡那裡的鄉里鄉氣，覺得連個名字也不好唸的地方不值得他掛齒。他的生活過得極不如意，認為萬惡之源便是他的姑媽美翠，而除掉她便可一勞永逸，永享美滿幸福。 於是他靈機一動，只要姑媽健在，我的遺產就歸她監管，人生就是黑白的。但姑媽若是死了，我的錢就隨便我花，人生就變成繽紛彩色 如果姑媽暴斃了該有多好，呵呵呵…… 所以他開始動了取姑媽老命的腦筋。 第一次，他弄壞姑媽一輛老車的煞車，不料天佑惡人，姑媽死裡逃生。 青年毫不氣餒，再接再勵，手段愈趨精緻，決心更形堅強，最後甚至連老天也不再旁觀，而終於出現了他自己完全意料不到的成果…… 這是一本謬趣橫生的反敘式偵探小說，全書給你冷血當有趣、令人噴飯的黑色幽默！ 小說裡那位滿臉痘痘、心理不平衡、尖酸卻又懦弱、...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 In 1960, when he was almost sixty years old, John Steinbeck set out to rediscover his native land. He felt that he might have lost touch with its sights, sounds and the essence of its people. Accompanied only by his dog, Charley, he travelled allacross the United States in a pick-up truck. His journey took him through almost forty states, and he saw things that made him...(展开全部)