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9780940322837
Mr. Fortune's Maggot and the Salutation And, the Salutation
by Warner, Sylvia Townsend, Mars-Jones, Adam
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- ISBN-13: 9780940322837
- ISBN: 0940322838
- Publication Date: 2001
- Publisher: Random House Inc
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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 childrenimmoral 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.Warner, Sylvia Townsend is the author of 'Mr. Fortune's Maggot and the Salutation And, the Salutation', published 2001 under ISBN 9780940322837 and ISBN 0940322838.
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