A House of Children edition by Joyce Cary Literature Fiction eBooks
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Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
“Whatever else you have been reading or thinking, it is difficult to believe that you will not find relief and dream the music of lost happiness in A House of Children.”
The Spectator
“This lovely book is a clear call to happiness.”
LP Hartley
“He has the greatest of all the novelist’s gifts. The English novel has again found a novelist who will preserve it in all its rightful glory.”
Sir Hugh Walpole
A semi-autobiographical tale, which draws upon Cary’s own upbringing to tell of a young boy’s holidays spent on the Donegal coast.
For six-year-old Evelyn Corner and his siblings, Dunamara is an enchanted place. A world away from England, school and duty, they can wander at will all summer long, roam in wild packs with village children, clamber and climb like squirrels, swim and dive like otters. Around them always, investing every moment with beauty and magic, is the miraculous, metallic weight of the sea.
Here is innocence and excitement. Here, above all, is anticipation. Only occasionally is there a hint of another life awaiting them, a life of adulthood, of responsibilities, perhaps even of disappointments…
A House of Children edition by Joyce Cary Literature Fiction eBooks
From its Proustian beginning to its Joycean overtones, this is a wonderful novel about childhood - the magical, imaginative world inhabited by children. Evelyn Corner, the main character who is now an adult, reflects back on the days of his youth, especially the long summer days spent with childhood friends and relatives at swimming parties and sailing, exploring the rural countryside, getting into mischief. He and the others decide to write and perform a play, and it's a huge disaster. Later on they are all taken to a performance of Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST, and Corner is transformed: the experience pushes him to become the writer he now is. (Cary admitted the novel was autobiographical.) But it's not so much what the children do that makes reading this book so satisfying, but rather the sensations that are fostered from the memory of those things. It reminded me somewhat of what Alice's sister must have experienced after Alice has awakened from her dream of Wonderland. Life is mysterious and marvelous, but it's also rather sad because out knowledge and perceptions are ever changing as circumstances change. Corner experiences this with regard to his father. This is an early Cary effort, and it's one of his best books.Product details
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A House of Children edition by Joyce Cary Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
From its Proustian beginning to its Joycean overtones, this is a wonderful novel about childhood - the magical, imaginative world inhabited by children. Evelyn Corner, the main character who is now an adult, reflects back on the days of his youth, especially the long summer days spent with childhood friends and relatives at swimming parties and sailing, exploring the rural countryside, getting into mischief. He and the others decide to write and perform a play, and it's a huge disaster. Later on they are all taken to a performance of Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST, and Corner is transformed the experience pushes him to become the writer he now is. (Cary admitted the novel was autobiographical.) But it's not so much what the children do that makes reading this book so satisfying, but rather the sensations that are fostered from the memory of those things. It reminded me somewhat of what Alice's sister must have experienced after Alice has awakened from her dream of Wonderland. Life is mysterious and marvelous, but it's also rather sad because out knowledge and perceptions are ever changing as circumstances change. Corner experiences this with regard to his father. This is an early Cary effort, and it's one of his best books.
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