Joyce Cary





Joyce Cary

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born
in Derry, Ireland
December 07, 1888

died
March 29, 1957

gender
male


About this author

Cary now undertook his great works examining historical and social change in England during his own lifetime. The First Trilogy (1941–44) finally provided Cary with a reasonable income, and The Horse's Mouth (1944) remains his most popular novel. Cary's pamphlet "The Case for African Freedom" (1941), published by Orwell's Searchlight Books series, had attracted some interest, and the film director Thorold Dickinson asked for Cary's help in developing a wartime movie set partly in Africa. In 1943, while writing The Horse's Mouth, Cary travelled to Africa with a film crew to work on Men of Two Worlds.

Cary travelled to India in 1946 on a second film project with Dickinson, but the struggle against the British for national independence made mov...more


Average rating: 3.90 · 1,055 ratings · 136 reviews · 34 distinct works · Similar authors
The Horse's Mouth
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3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 553 ratings — published 1944 — 20 editions
Herself Surprised
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3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 1941 — 5 editions
Mister Johnson
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 1939 — 13 editions
To Be a Pilgrim
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3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1942 — 5 editions
Prisoner of Grace
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 21 ratings4 editions
Except the Lord
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1953 — 3 editions
Art And Reality: Ways Of Th...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1958
A House of Children
4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1941 — 4 editions
The African Witch
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1936
Not Honour More
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1955 — 2 editions
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“To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.”
Joyce Cary

“To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.”
Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth

“The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that he who seeks his own happiness does not find it; that he who is weak must suffer; that he who demands love will be disappointed; that he who is greedy will not be fed; that he who seeks peace will find strife; that truth is only for the brave; that joy is only for him who does not fear to be alone; that life is only for the one who is not afraid to die.”
Joyce Cary

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