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The horse's mouth / a novel by Joyce Cary.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR6005.A77 H67 1944
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cary, Joyce, 1888-1957.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Painters--Fiction.
- Painters.
- Artists and patrons.
- Artists and patrons--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Eccentrics and eccentricities--Fiction.
- Eccentrics and eccentricities.
- London (England)--Fiction.
- England--London.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Humorous fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Stine, Harold S., Mrs. (donor) (RBC copy)
- Physical Description:
- 311 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper & Brothers, [1944]
- Summary:
- Painter hero, the charming and larcenous Gulley Jimson, has an insatiable genius for creation and a no less remarkable appetite for destruction. Is he a great artist? a has-been? or an exhausted, drunken ne'er-do-well? He is without doubt a visionary, and as he criss-crosses London in search of money and inspiration the world as seen though his eyes appears with a newly outrageous and terrible beauty.
- Notes:
- Sequel to: To be a pilgrim.
- A novel.
- List of author's works on preliminary leaf.
- Publisher's device on title page.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Cary, Joyce, 1888-1957. Horse's mouth.
- OCLC:
- 760508
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