Mr Fortune's Maggot
- Paperback
250 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2000
Summary
The Reverend Timothy Fortune, ex-bank clerk, has spent 10 years as a South Seas Island missionary when a "maggot" impels him to embark on an assignment to the even more remote island of Fanua, where a white man is a rarity. Mr. Fortune is a good man, humble and earnest. He wishes to bring the joys of Christianity to the innocent heathen. But in his 3 years on Fanua, he makes only one convert—the boy Lueli, who loves him. This love, and the sensuous freedom of the i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780860680437 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0860680436 |
| Author: | Sylvia Townsend Warner |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Young Readers |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 250 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2000 |
| Weight: | 181g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 124mm x 196mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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About The Author
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Born in Harrow (1893-1978), Sylvia Townsend Warner published seven novels, four volumes of poetry, a volume of essays and eight volumes of short stories. She lived most of her adult life with her close companion Valentine Ackland in Dorset and Norfolk.
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