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The Horse's Mouth Sep 9, 2020

by Joyce Cary

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The Horse’s Mouth, famously filmed with Alec Guinness in the central role, is a searing portrait of the artistic temperament.

Gulley Jimson is the charming, impoverished painter who cares little about the conventional values of his day. His unfailing belief that he must live and paint according to his intuition without regard for the cost to himself or to others, makes him a man of great, if sometimes flawed, vision.

But with an admirable drive for creation comes an astonishing hunger for destruction. Is he a great artist? A has-been? Or an exhausted, drunken ne'er-do-well?

As Gulley Jimson criss-crosses London in search of money and inspiration, the world as seen through his eyes appears with a wonderful lustre and a terrible beauty.

Praise for The Horse’s Mouth:

’The richest comic novel of the last ten years’ – V. S. Pritchett

‘Mr Joyce Cary is an important and exciting writer… if you like rich writing full of gusto and accurate original character drawing, you will get it from The Horse’s Mouth’ - John Betjeman

‘The Horse’s Mouth has the kick of ten stallions. Mr Joyce Cary writes at top pace, at the top of his voice, and the top of his form’ - The Observer

Joyce Cary was born in 1888 into an old Anglo-Irish family and educated at Clifton. He studied art, first in Edinburgh and then in Paris, before going up to Trinity College, Oxford in 1909 to read law. On coming down he served as a Red Cross orderly in the Balkan War of 1912-13, the inspiration for Memoir of the Bobotes, before joining the Nigerian Political Service. He served in the Nigeria Regiment during the First World War, and his time in Africa provided the inspiration for his first four novels. Though he settled in Oxford as a full time writer in 1920, it was not until 1932 that his first book was published. At the time of his death in 1957, he was recognised as one of the leading novelists in the world.

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Herself Surprised Dec 26, 2016

by Joyce Cary

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“There seems to be more truth of human nature, a profounder understanding of the springs of action than in any novel I have read for a long time.”
L P Hartley

“The life story of one of the most engaging and subtly realised heroines of recent fiction.”
Atlantic Monthly

“A remarkable novel… beautifully done.”
Country Life

“Acute, balanced, and at times brilliantly pure narrative, with a delicacy of insight that adorns everything he touches… A very live and true story.”
Times Literary Supplement

Herself Surprised is the story of Sara Monday, a former housemaid who tells of “her grand days” and of all her “coming down days since.” Looking back from a prison cell on a life that covers the first half of the 20th century, Sara introduces a gallery of vivid characters: her timid and doting husband, Mr. Monday; Rozzie, her hard-boiled friend; her various lovers including the brilliant but dangerously violent painter Gully Jimson and the miserly lawyer Tom Wilcher. In Sara, an irrepressible, sexually magnetic woman, at once manipulated and generous to a fault, Cary has created a complex and wonderfully realised character - one of the most memorable in twentieth-century fiction.

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Castle Corner Dec 26, 2016

by Joyce Cary

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“How entertaining it is! How brilliant in understated comment…how twisted and ironic in tenderness… how amusing and clearly pictorial.”
The Spectator

“There is life in this book and there is colour; a rich and most satisfactory panorama.”
The Sunday Times

“Mr Cary’s book is stupendous… There is an intellectual richness… pages of allusive anecdote, chat, picture, narrative, family history and a grim display of human squalor.”
The Observer

Stretching from the fashionable homes of London to difficulties in a West African trading station and back to the sweeping beauty of rural Ireland, this is the vast, panoramic story of the Anglo-Irish Corner family.

Its sweeping narrative follows the shifting fortunes of the two Corner brothers who succeeded old John in the family line: John Chas Corner, who inherited Castle Corner with its multiple responsibilities, a man of indestructible good will whose purse was as open as his heart; and Felix Corner, whose restless and inquiring spirit took him to West Africa where opportunity beckoned pioneers and speculators.

Around these two men, interwoven with their lives, involved in and shaped by the social and political ferment of the times, are other Corners, their tenants, servants and neighbours in Annish; and in Nigeria the African tribesmen under pagan and Mohammedan rulers who were accidental pawns in the white man’s compulsive drive for power and glory.

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