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1950s Penguin photograph of Joyce Cary. Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary (7 December 1888 – 29 March 1957), known as Joyce Cary, was an Anglo-Irish novelist and colonial official. [1] [2] His most notable novels include Mister Johnson and The Horse's Mouth.
Joyce Cary was an English novelist who wrote about Africa, art, and politics. Learn about his life, his trilogies, and his best-known character, Gulley Jimson, in The Horse's Mouth.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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- March 29, 1957
- December 7, 1888
- The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary, Brad Leithauser (Introduction)
- Mister Johnson.
- Herself Surprised by Joyce Cary, Brad Leithauser (Introduction)
- To Be a Pilgrim by Joyce Cary, Brad Leithauser (Introduction)
The Horse's Mouth, the third and most celebrated volume of Joyce Cary's First Trilogy, is perhaps the finest novel ever written about an artist. Its painter hero, the charming and larcenous Gulley Jimson, has an insatiable genius for creation and a no less remarkable appetite for destruction.
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Joyce Cary, a novelist and former soldier, talks about his writing style, themes, and influences in this 1954 interview. He discusses his views on form, reality, and the free mind in a changing world.
Joyce Cary has 69 books on Goodreads with 15145 ratings. Joyce Cary’s most popular book is The Horse's Mouth.
Joyce Cary was an Anglo-Irish novelist and essayist who lived in England and wrote about Africa. Learn about his life, his works, and his themes of freedom, reality, and art.
