The Horse's Mouth

Joyce Cary

Original title: The horse's mouth

first published 1948 New York Review Books, 1999 412 pages

Penguin Modern Classics

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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The Horse's Mouth paperback · 2020 · Lume Books · 334 pages · 9781839012457
The Horse's Mouth paperback · 2016 · Thistle Publishing · 464 pages · 9781910670224
The horse's mouth edition · 1999 · New York Review Books · 412 pages
The Horse's Mouth paperback · 1990 · Perennial · 9780060920210
The horse's mouth edition · 1982 · Time-Life Books · 464 pages
Horses Mouth paperback · 1975 · HarperCollins Publishers · 356 pages
The horse's mouth edition · 1969 · Folio Society · 340 pages
The Horse's Mouth hardcover · 1951 · Michael Joseph Ltd · 292 pages · 9780718104702
The horse's mouth edition · 1948 · Penguin · 375 pages
Horses Mouth (Modern Classics) paperback · 1948 · Penguin Putnam~mass · 384 pages

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