Mr. Fortune's Maggot and the Salutation: And, the Salutation (New York Review Books Classics) - Softcover

Warner, Sylvia Townsend

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0940322838 ISBN 13: 9780940322837

Verlag: New York Review of Books, 2001

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Book by Warner Sylvia Townsend

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After a decade in one South Seas mission, a London bank-clerk-turned-minister sets his heart on serving a remote volcanic island. Fanua contains neither cannibals nor Christians, but its citizens, his superior warns, are like children—immoral children. Still, Mr. Timothy Fortune lights out for Fanua. Yet after three years, he has made only one convert, and his devotion to the boy may prove more sensual than sacred. Mr. Fortune’s Maggot, Sylvia Townsend Warner’s second novel, is lyrical, droll, and deeply affecting, and her missionary captivated his creator as much as he did her readers.

Long after the book's publication, Warner began the novella The Salutation. Now adrift and starving on the Brazilian pampas, Mr. Fortune is rescued by an elderly widow, who delights in having an Englishman about the house. Her heir, however, may beg to differ.

Brilliant and subversive, Mr. Fortune's Maggot and its sequel are now available for the first time ever in one volume. They show Sylvia Townsend Warner at the height of her powers.

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• Verlag: New York Review of Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0940322838
• ISBN 13: 9780940322837
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 227