Charley is My Darling - Softcover

Cary, Joyce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 074740688X ISBN 13: 9780747406884

Publisher: Cardinal Books, 1990

Synopsis

Excerpt from Charley Is My Darling

Suddenly a young woman came out Of the farmhouse door, and exclaimed in a soft sing-song voice: Why, Charley, what ever is the matter?

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About the Author:

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, was wounded while fighting in the Cameroons, and returned to civil duty in Nigeria in 1917 as a district officer. 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.

Cary is probably best known as a novelist and especially for Mister Johnson and ‘The First Triptych’ (Herself Surprised, To Be a Pilgrim and The Horse’s Mouth) in which the three main protagonists narrate their interlocking experiences and reveal their contrasting personalities. However he was also a fine short story writer, essayist and poet.

Synopsis:

A 15-year old evacuee from a London slum, Charley Brown establishes himself as a gang leader in the West Country. The author has also written "A Fearful Joy", "Herself Surprised", "To be a Pilgrim" and "The Horse's Mouth".

About this edition

• Publisher: Cardinal Books
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 074740688X
• ISBN 13: 9780747406884
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352