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Herself Surprised

By: Joyce Cary

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Herself Surprised, the first volume of Joyce Cary's remarkable First Trilogy, introduces Sara Monday, a woman at once dissolute and devout, passionate and sly. With no regrets, Sara reviews her changing fortunes, remembering the drudgery of domestic servitude, the pleasures of playing the great lady in a small provincial town, and the splendors and miseries of life as the model, muse, and mistress of the painter Gulley Jimson.

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New York Review of Books

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094032217X

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Prisoner of Grace

By: Joyce Cary

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Prisoner of Grace

By: Joyce Cary

Despite her love for Jim Latter, a young adventurer, Nina Woodville feels obliged to remain the wife of Chester Nimmo, an ambitious British politician

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New Directions Publishing

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0811209644

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9780811209649

The Horse's Mouth

By: Joyce Cary

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The Horse's Mouth

By: Joyce Cary

The Horse's Mouth, the third and most celebrated volume of Joyce Cary's First Trilogy, is perhaps the finest novel ever written about an artist. Its 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.

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Time Life Medical

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0809436825

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9780809436828

Mister Johnson

By: Joyce Cary

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Mister Johnson

By: Joyce Cary

The adventures and misadventures of a young Nigerian negro in the British colonial civil service. A temporary clerk, still on probation, Mr Johnson has been in Fada, Nigeria, for six months and is already much in debt. Undaunted, he entertains on the grandest scale, with drums and smuggled gin. Not only that, he intends to pay a small fortune for his wife...

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1456636464

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9781456636463

A House of Children

By: Joyce Cary

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A House of Children

By: Joyce Cary

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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244

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New Directions Publishing

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0811210081

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9780811210089

Except the Lord

By: Joyce Cary

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Except the Lord

By: Joyce Cary

Chester Nimmo, the son of a stableman, recalls the hardships endured by his family.

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New Directions Publishing

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0811209652

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9780811209656

To be a Pilgrim

By: Joyce Cary

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To be a Pilgrim

By: Joyce Cary

Joyce Cary wrote two trilogies, or triptychs as he later preferred to call them. The first comprises: Herself Surprised, To Be a Pilgrim and The Horse's Mouth. In the months before his death, Tom Wilcher, who is looked after by his niece and nephew (both concerned for their inheritance), lives his life over again in the house in which his childhood was spent. The religious family life of his youth is contrasted with the rootlessness of his heirs. The character of the old man is seen through his attitude to his family and the way in which he tries to make them feel the value of a family tradition. 'A remarkable novel ... An original attempt to embody a complete vision of life, and it contains scenes as vivid and beautiful as anything else in modern fiction.' The Listener 'Its excellence lies in the great skill with which a character is drawn in all its variety, in the minor portraits of members of his family, with their subsidiary stories, and in the unhesitating and illuminating detail of half a century of English life.' Observer

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0571252087

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9780571252084

Mister Johnson

By: Joyce Cary,Douglas Matthews

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Mister Johnson

By: Joyce Cary,Douglas Matthews

Johnson may not be the Empire's most able servant, but he certainly is keen and is very good at replacing expertise with enthusiasm. How, though, to protect the Empire from its most devoted upholder? How, come to that, to protect Johnson from himself?

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Everyman Paperbacks

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0460875876

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9780460875875

Prisoner of Grace

The Chester Nimmo Trilogy

By: Joyce Cary

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Prisoner of Grace

The Chester Nimmo Trilogy

By: Joyce Cary

The first volume of the Chester Nimmo trilogy. Bewitchingly beautiful Nina Woodville is an intelligent and sensual woman. Brought up with her cousin, Jim Latter, she is forced into an arranged marriage at eighteen with Chester Nimmo. Chester pursues his political career with ﬁerce ambition while Nina, though disturbed by his religious zeal, tries to be a supportive wife. But mutual passion binds Nina and Jim together and their destinies become entwined with powerfully tragic consequences. Earthy and full-blooded, both innocent and wise, we find in Nina a woman as sensuous as Emma Bovary, as ravaged as Anna Karenina.

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1910670251

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9781910670255

Art and Reality: Ways of the Creative Process

By: Joyce Cary

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Art and Reality: Ways of the Creative Process

By: Joyce Cary

Originally published in 1958, this book by artist Joyce Cary examines 'the relation of the artist with the world as it seems to him, and to see what he does with it'. Cary speaks from practical experience when describing artistic inspiration and the ways in which varying arts present different forms of 'truth'. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in art and the psychology of the artist.

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174

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Ayer Company Pub

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0836919068

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9780836919066

Inheriting the Revolution

The First Generation of Americans

By: Joyce Appleby

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Inheriting the Revolution

The First Generation of Americans

By: Joyce Appleby

Details the experiences of the first generation of Americans who inherited the independent country, discussing the lives, businesses, and religious freedoms that transformed the country in its early years.

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Harvard University Press

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0674006631

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9780674006638

The Beast Within

Animals in the Middle Ages

By: Joyce E. Salisbury

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The Beast Within

Animals in the Middle Ages

By: Joyce E. Salisbury

Praise for the first edition: "...a brave and fascinating exploration of an area that has so far been rather neglected by both historical and literary critics. The Beast Within provides extremely valuable information on the legal and cultural background of the human-animal relationship..." -- Studies in the Age of Chaucer This important book offers a unique exploration of the use of and attitude towards animals from the 4th to the 14th centuries. The Beast Within explores the varying roles of animals as property, food and sexual objects, and the complex relationship that this created with the people and world around them. Joyce E. Salisbury takes an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, weaving a historical narrative that includes economic, legal, theological, literary and artistic sources. The book shows how by the end of the Middle Ages the lines between humans and animals had blurred completely, making us recognise the beast that lay within us all. This new edition has been brought right up to date with current scholarship, and includes a brand new chapter on animals on trial and animals as human companions, as well as expanded and updated discussions on fables and saints, and a new section on ‘bestial humans’. This important and provocative book remains a key work on the historical study of animals, as well as in the field of environmental history more generally, and also provides crucial context to ongoing debates on animal rights and the environment.

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216

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Routledge

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113576431X

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9781135764319

The Dead and Other Stories

A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition

By: James Joyce

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The Dead and Other Stories

A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition

By: James Joyce

That James Joyce’s “The Dead” forms an extraordinary conclusion to his collection Dubliners, there can be no doubt. But as many have pointed out, “The Dead” may equally well be read as a novella—arguably, one of the finest novellas ever written. “The Dead,” a “story of public life,” as Joyce categorized it, was written more than a year after Joyce had finished the other stories in the collection, and was meant to redress what he felt was their “unnecessary harsh[ness].” Set on the feast of the epiphany, it is a haunting tale of connection and of alienation, reflecting, in the words of Stanislaus Joyce (James’s brother and confidant), “the nostalgic love of a rejected exile.” The present volume highlights “The Dead” for readers who wish to focus on that great work in a concise volume—and for university courses in which it is not possible to cover all of Dubliners. But it also gives a strong sense of how that story is part of a larger whole. Stories from each of the other sections of Dubliners have been included, and a wide range of background materials is included as well, providing a vivid sense of the literary and historical context out of which the work emerged.

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Broadview Press

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1554811651

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Psalm 91

Real-Life Stories of God's Shield of Protection and What This Psalm Means for You and Those You Love

By: Peggy Joyce Ruth

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Psalm 91

Real-Life Stories of God's Shield of Protection and What This Psalm Means for You and Those You Love

By: Peggy Joyce Ruth

Psalm 91" takes a comprehensive look at the only place in the Bible where all of the protection promises are brought together into one collection. Readers will be taken through the psalm verse-by-verse and given detailed explanations of God's promises.

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Charisma Media

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1616381477

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9781616381479

A Twist Of Light

By: Joyce Mandeville

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A Twist Of Light

By: Joyce Mandeville

When Lizzy is only twelve, she and her older sister Ellie discover their mother lying dead in a pool of vomit. Behaving with the practical aplomb that only young girls possess, they bury her body and drive out of town. But Lizzy hadn't counted on Ellie's boyfriend coming along for the ride. Steve is a convicted juvenile criminal and, more importantly for Lizzy, his colours are bad. For as long as she can remember, Lizzy had seen bands of colour around people. Some were good, some not so; Steve's colours were almost black. And, as Lizzy predicts, the journey does not lead to happiness . . . Now a mother herself, Lizzy writes of her past to her own daughter, patching together her curious upbringing afresh: a brave and heart-warming process, revealing the secrets and mysteries at the core of her life. A stirring, ultimately uplifting novel of love, loyalty and survival.

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Sphere

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0751556777

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9780751556773

Discarded Legacy

Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E.W. Harper, 1825-1911

By: Melba Joyce Boyd

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Discarded Legacy

Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E.W. Harper, 1825-1911

By: Melba Joyce Boyd

In this important study, poet Melba Joyce Boyd analyzes Harper not simply as a feminist and an activist, but as a writer.

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268

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Wayne State University Press

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0814324894

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9780814324899

The Hyde Park Mission Story Lives On

By: Joyce Parker

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The Hyde Park Mission Story Lives On

By: Joyce Parker

This is the 125th birthday of Women's Missionary Union, (WMU). In March 1888, the women doing missions all over the states and territories banded together and organized, in order to make more of an impact on world missions. As you will learn in Lillian Brown's historical document in this book, (complete with references) Texas women had been doing foreign missions for several years previous to 1888, but joined in the bigger organization with the ladies "back East." Hyde Park Baptist Church was begun June 1, 1894, and the women began their mission organization December 1896. At this writing, March 13, 2014, it was last year that I read the book "The Story Lives On" by Wanda S. Lee, Executive Director of WMU, and "somehow" heard a voice in my head, "Joyce, you can do this." So I began collecting mission stories and gathering some historical stories from my fellow Hyde Park'ers, to honor this calling and hopefully to inform our Staff and members of what's going on at Hyde Park Baptist Church outside the worship center. I pray to God our mission story does live on until Jesus comes again! Joyce Parker Coordinator of Women on Mission Hyde Park Baptist Church

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