Mr Fortune's Maggot (1927, first edition)
Sylvia Townsend Warner's second novel
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First edition, first impression. Hardback, gilt titling to spine. 19.5 × 11.5cm, 251pp.
The Reverend Timothy Fortune, ex-clerk of the Hornsey Branch of Lloyds Bank, has spent ten years as a South Seas Island missionary when a 'maggot' impels him to embark on what he describes as a 'sort of pious escapade'—an assignment to the even more remote island of Fanua, where a white man is a rarity. Mr Fortune is a good man, humble, earnest—he wishes to bring the joys of Christianity to the innocent heathen. But in his three years on Fanua he makes only one convert—the boy Lueli, who loves him. This love, and the sensuous freedom of the islanders produces in Mr Fortune a change of heart which is shattering...
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A good reading copy. The covers are sunned to the top edge and along the joint, corners and spine ends rubbed. Light foxing but otherwise in strong readable condition.
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£20.00
