To Be a Pilgrim

Joyce Cary

Original title: To be a pilgrim

first published 1942 Lume Books, 2021 paperback 482 pages

Tom Wilcher, a rich Englishman who is treated as a foolish old man by his young relatives, looks back on his life and his unfulfilled spiritual yearnings even as he faces death.

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To Be a Pilgrim paperback · 2021 · Lume Books · 482 pages · 9781839013775
To Be a Pilgrim edition · 2009 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 338 pages · 9780571252084
To be a pilgrim edition · 1999 · New York Review Books · 481 pages
To Be a Pilgrim hardcover · 1980 · Amereon Limited · 9780884113140
To be a pilgrim edition · 1951 · Joseph · 342 pages
To Be a Pilgrim hardcover · 1949 · Harpercollins Childrens Books · 106 pages · 9789997407474

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