The Horse's Mouth

Second Hand

Excellent Condition

Joyce Cary wrote two trilogies, or 'triptychs' as he later called them.

The first comprises Herself Surprised (1941), To Be a Pilgrim (1942) and The Horse's Mouth (1944).

The Horse's Mouth is a portrait of an artistic temperament. Its protagonist, Gulley Gimson, is an impoverished painter who scorns conventional good behaviour.

If a bad citizen, he is a good artist, so wholly preoccupied with his art that he is willing to endure any privation.

For Gulley there is but one morality: to be a painter.