Mr Fortune's Maggot

Name: Mr Fortune's Maggot
Brand: Little, Brown Book Group
SKU: 9780860680437-G
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By Sylvia Townsend Warner

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The Reverend Timothy Fortune, ex-clerk of the Hornsey Branch of Lloyds Bank, has spent ten years as a South Seas Island missionary when a 'maggot' impels him to embark on what he describes as a 'sort of pious escapade' - an assignment to the even more remote island of Fanua, where a white man is a rarity. Mr Fortune is a good man, humble, earnest - he wishes to bring the joys of Christianity to the innocent heathen. But in his three years on Fanua he makes only one convert - the boy Lueli, who loves him. This love, and the sensuous freedom of the islanders produces in Mr Fortune a change of heart which is shattering... Beautifully imagined, the paradise island and its people are as vivid as a Gauguin painting. Told with the driest of wise humour, touching and droll by turns, its theme - that we can never love anything without messing it about - is only one of the delights of this enchanting book.

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Languages:: Original: English
Number of Pages:: 258
Publisher:: Little, Brown Book Group
Publication Date:: 2000-05-04
ISBN / EAN:: 9780860680437
Weight:: 217 g
Dimensions:: 13/20/2 cm

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