A House of Children

Joyce Cary

New Directions Publishing, 1941 - Biography & Autobiography - 239 pages

The narrator, Evelyn, recalls the series of experiences during childhood summers at Donegal, which led to his perception of the world as an adult.

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A group of cousins spend summers and school holidays together in Ireland. Not much happens, but it's a charming character study.

Contents

• Section 1: 5
• Section 2: 10
• Section 3: 16
• Section 4: 29
• Section 5: 40
• Section 6: 56
• Section 7: 66
• Section 8: 75
• Section 9: 85
• Section 10: 112
• Section 11: 116
• Section 12: 135
• Section 13: 140
• Section 14: 150
• Section 15: 153
• Section 16: 169
• Section 17: 172
• Section 18: 185
• Section 19: 196
• Section 20: 202
• Section 21: 207
• Section 22: 227
• Section 23: 231
• Section 24: 235

About the author

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 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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: A House of Children; Volume 631 of New Directions Paperbook, Ndp631; Volume 631 of Paperbook Series
• Author: Joyce Cary
• Edition: reprint, reissue
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing, 1941
• ISBN: 0811210081, 9780811210089
• Length: 239 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / General; Literary Collections / Essays