Violent evictions in Donegal, fashionable drawing-rooms in London, compromise and degradation in a West African trading station - Joyce Cary's panoramic novel follows the fortunes of the Anglo-Irish Corner family as they contend with a changing world at the nineteenth century's turn. Although not published until 1938, Castle Corner has been widely acclaimed as comparable with the best nineteenth-century family chronicles. With a diverse and colourful cast of characters from many walks of life, it traces the shifting fortunes of the Anglo-Irish Corner family towards the end of the Victorian era, fortunes that are influenced as much by the contrasting characters of the protagonists as by the social and political upheaval of the time.
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'Mr Cary's book is stupendous... There is an intellectual richness... pages of allusive anecdote, chat, picture, narrative, family history, and a grim display of human squalor... It is a grand effect; and the book has a fury of incontrovertible detail' - Frank Swinnerton, Observer Joyce Cary was born in 1888 into an old Anglo-Irish family and educated at Clifton. He studied art, first in Edinburgh and then in Paris, before going up to Trinity College, Oxford in 1909 to read law. On coming down he served as a Red Cross orderly in the Balkan War of 1912-13, the inspiration for Memoir of the Bobotes, before joining the Nigerian Political Service. He served in the Nigeria Regiment during the First World War, and his time in Africa provided the inspiration for his first four novels. Though he settled in Oxford as a full-time writer in 1920, it was not until 1932 that his first book was published. At the time of his death in 1957, he was recognised as one of the world's leading novelists.

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