Joyce Cary (1888–1957)
Autor de The Horse's Mouth
Sobre El Autor
Joyce Cary was born as Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, in 1888. Cary studied art in Edinburgh and Paris and law at Oxford, before fighting in West Africa in World War I. He took up writing when injuries and bad health forced him into an early retirement. Cary wrote several mostrar más novels, among them Mister Johnson, using his experiences in Africa as background. Cary has been acclaimed for his skill in creating well-developed plots and credible characterizations and for his unique sense of humor, and is best known for a trilogy that includes the novels Herself Surprised, To Be a Pilgrim, and The Horse's Mouth. Cary died in 1957. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: portrait by Eric Kennington
Series
Obras de Joyce Cary
Marching soldier, 2 copias
Tre modi di peccare : romanzo 2 copias
Time Reading Program - The Horse's Mouth, The Decline of Pleasure, Disraeli, The Man of the Renaissance [4 Book… (1966) 2 copias
The art of fiction 2 copias
The Short Story and You: Englische Lektüre für das 5. Lernjahr, Oberstufe (Klett English Editions) (2009) 2 copias
El curandero 1 copia
Na milost in nemilost 1 copia
Så galt kan det gå 1 copia
Jeg blev aldrig klogere 1 copia
Government Baby 1 copia
The drunken sailor 1 copia
Радость и страх. Рассказы 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contribuidor — 131 copias
The Second Penguin Book of English Short Stories (1972) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 119 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Cary, Arthur Joyce Lunel
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1888-12-07
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1957-03-29
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Ireland (birth)
UK - Lugar de nacimiento
- Derry, Ireland
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Derry, Ireland (birth)
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Paris, France
Montenegro
Nigeria
Cary Castle, Ireland (mostrar todos 7)
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK (death) - Educación
- Clifton College
Oxford University (Trinity College) - Ocupaciones
- Red Cross orderly ( [1912])
Colonial Officer (Nigeria)
novelist
artist - Relaciones
- Cary, Tristram (son)
Kennedy, Margaret (cousin)
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Reseñas
Listas
Backlisted (1)
Hidden Classics (1)
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 40
- También por
- 11
- Miembros
- 2,865
- Popularidad
- #8,949
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 49
- ISBNs
- 140
- Idiomas
- 5
- Favorito
- 11
Mister Johnson suffers from the "Big Man" syndrome. He imagines wealth and the good things in life are his due because he has a chief clerk's job in a District office of the Nigerian Colonial Service. He is inept; he steals, he borrows irresponsibly, he lies and is a farcical husband.
Meanwhile, the District Officer sees the opportunity of a road building project as a lasting memorial to his term of tenure at his otherwise tedious posting.
All transactions are corrupt in this dusty set-up. Accounts are falsified, money diverted, the roading project brings only overcrowding and no prosperity.
There is no resolution to the colonial divide, and it is Cary's genius that drives home the futility of colonial administration amid the chronically corrupt and mean culture of the native population. The final scenes are a devastating commentary on the whole sorry story.… (más)