Except the Lord / Joyce Cary
1953, First Edition. Michael Joseph : London. Fine cloth copy in a good if slightly edge-nicked, somewhat edge-rubbed, dust-dulled & price-clipped dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #229402
Physical description: 286 p. ; 21 cm. Notes: The second vol. of the author's trilogy, the first of which is Prisoner of grace and the third, Not honour more. Summary: Except the Lord turns to the religious imagination as it expresses itself in politics. It recounts in autobiographical form the early life of Chester Nimmo, the Devonshire labourer's son who became a great radical leader in Edwardian days. Subject: Radicalism / leaders/ religious nature of man / Edwardian period. Genre: Fiction, text.
Price: €21.00