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Mr. Fortune / Sylvia Townsend Warner ; introduction by Adam Mars-Jones.
Van Pelt Library PR6045.A812 M74 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 1893-1978.
- Series:
- New York Review Books classics
- Standardized Title:
- Mr. Fortune's maggot
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 225 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York Review Books, [2011]
- Summary:
- "After a decade in one South Seas mission, a London bank-clerk-turned-minister sets his heart on serving a remote volcanic island. Fauna contains neither cannibals nor Christians, but its citizens, his superior warns, are like children--immoral children. Still, Mr. Timothy Fortune lights out for Fauna. Yet after three years, he has made only one convert, and his devotion to the boy may prove more sensual than sacred."--P. [4] of cover.
- Long after Mr. Fortune's Maggot was published, 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.
- Contents:
- Mr. Fortune's Maggot
- The Salutation.
- Notes:
- Previously published as: Mr. Fortune's maggot.
- ISBN:
- 1590174585
- 9781590174586
- OCLC:
- 687652923
- Publisher Number:
- 99945014627
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