A House of Children
by Joyce Cary
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A drab, drear-looking house, Dunamara squats on the Donegal coast across the lough from Derry. It is a rough, windswept setting, but for six-year-old Evelyn Corner - brought here each year to holiday with his brothers, sisters and cousins - it is an enchanted place.Tags
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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.
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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 show more 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) show less
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- Canonical title
- A House of Children
- Original publication date
- 1941
- People/Characters
- Evelyn
- Dedication
- To ELSIE MAXWELL CARLISLE
- First words
- The other day, in an iland town, I saw through an open window, a branch of fuschia waving stiffly up and down in the breeze; and at once I smelt the breeze salty, and had a picture of a bright curtain flapping inwards and, be... (show all)yond the curtain, dazzling sunlight on miles of crinkling water.
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- English, German
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- Paper, Ebook
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