Mister Johnson
by Joyce Cary
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From the jacket copy: > The central character of this unique novel of Africa is *Mister Johnson,* a gangling, loveable, almost unbelievable Negro clerk. He is deeply attached to all things English without ever realizing their true significance. Childishly confident of his own abilities he goes gaily on until he has lost his job, his wife, and finally his life. >At once comic and sad, profound and ludicrous, this is one of Joyce Cary's finest novels. >"Of the four novels that have come out of his African experience, *Mister Johnson* is the best, at once most humorous and sympathetic, fresh and exuberant ..." -- *Time Magazine*
Themes & subjects
Social life and customsTranslations into EnglishFictionManners and customsItalian Short storiesBlacks
First published 1900Setting
Nigeria
About the author
Joyce Cary
7 December 1888 – 29 March 1957
Joyce Arthur Cary was an Irish novelist and artist born in Derry, Ireland. His family had been landlords in Donegal since Elizabethan times, but lost their property after passage of the Irish Land Act in 1882. Cary's grandfather died soon after and his grandmother moved into a cottage near Cary Castle, one of the lost family properties. The family dispersed and Cary had uncles who served in the frontier US Cavalry and the Canadian North West Mounted Police. Most of the Carys wound up in England. Arthur Cary trained as an engineer and married Charlotte Joyce, the well-to-do daughter of a Belfast banker. After his son was born in 1888, Arthur moved his family to London. Throughout his ch…
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