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Mr Fortune's Maggot
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Mr Fortune's Maggot

by Sylvia Townsend Warner

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Format Paperback / Softback
Book Series Penguin Modern Classics
ISBN-10 0241476097
ISBN-13 9780241476093
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Classics
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Feb 25th, 2021
Print length 160 Pages
Weight 122 grams
Dimensions 12.70 x 19.80 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification: Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Ksh 2,000.00
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'Witty, poetic, clairvoyant' John UpdikeThe Reverend Timothy Fortune, ex-clerk of the Hornsey branch of Lloyds Bank, has found his vocation: to convert the inhabitants of the remote tropical island of Fanua to Christianity. Even when everyone except for a young boy called Lueli remains indifferent to his preaching, Mr Fortune's good spirits cannot be dampened - until one day his faith is put to a terrible test. 'This quizzical tale is so intensely moving' Gillian Beer, New Statesman'Original, elegant and hypnotically strange' Miranda Seymour, The New York Times'Sylvia Townsend Warner pursues the psychology of the story with beautiful accuracy' John Carey

''Witty, poetic, clairvoyant'' John Updike

The Reverend Timothy Fortune, ex-clerk of the Hornsey branch of Lloyds Bank, has found his vocation: to convert the inhabitants of the remote tropical island of Fanua to Christianity. Even when everyone except for a young boy called Lueli remains indifferent to his preaching, Mr Fortune''s good spirits cannot be dampened - until one day his faith is put to a terrible test.

''This quizzical tale is so intensely moving'' Gillian Beer, New Statesman

''Original, elegant and hypnotically strange'' Miranda Seymour, The New York Times

''Sylvia Townsend Warner pursues the psychology of the story with beautiful accuracy'' John Carey

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