Mister Johnson
First published 1939
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> 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.
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Catalogue record
Penguin in association with Joseph · 250 pages
- Publisher
- Penguin in association with Joseph
- Pages
- 250
- ISBN
- 978-0-14-013933-4
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- Publisher
- Penguin in association with Joseph
- Pages
- 250
- ISBNs
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- 978-0-14-013933-4
- 978-0-7181-0239-5
- 978-0-8112-1174-1
- 978-0-571-25209-1
- 978-0-8112-1030-0
- 978-0-14-001726-7
- 978-0-460-87587-5
- 978-0-8094-3610-1
- 978-0-582-34900-1
- 978-0-8094-3611-8
- Author
- Cary, Joyce
- Statement
- Mister Johnson / Joyce Cary.
- Records
- Open Library
- Italian Short stories
- Blacks
- British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- In literature
- Romans, nouvelles
- British Colonialism
- Africa
- Black people
- Nigeria