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Mr. Fortune's Maggot

  • Sylvia Townsend Warner

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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 children—immoral 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.

Genres

  • Missionaries
  • Gay
  • British
  • Fiction
  • Boys
  • Widows
  • Fiction, general
  • Fiction, romance, general
  • Fiction, psychological
  • Brazil, fiction
  • Pacific area, fiction
  • Widows, fiction
  • Missionaries, fiction
  • London (england), fiction
  • English literature
  • Fantasy fiction
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About the author

  • Sylvia Townsend Warner

    6 December 1893 - 1 May 1978

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    11 ratings · 116 works

Editions

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    The Literary Guild of America

    1927-01-01

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    Facsim. ed edition

    Virago Press, Limited

    December 27, 1987

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    Facsim. ed.

    Virago

    1978

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    Kessinger Publishing

    July 30, 2004

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New York Review Books

2001

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    Chatto & Windus

    1927

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    The Viking Press

    1927-02-06

  • Edition cover

    Penguin Books, Limited

    2021

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    Little, Brown Book Group Limited

    2011

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    Penguin Books, Limited

    2021

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    New York Review Books

    2011

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    AMS Press

    1980

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    The Viking Press

    1927

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    The Literary Guild

    1927

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    Penguin

    1948

  • Edition cover

    Penguin

    1948

  • Edition cover

    The Literary Guild

    1927

  • Edition cover

    Penguin Books

    1948

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    Chatto and Windus

    1927