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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...Beautifully imagined, the paradise island and its people are as vivid as a Gauguin painting. Told with the driest of wise humour, touching and droll by turns, its theme - that we can never love anything without messing it about - is only one of the delights of this enchanting book.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Pełny tytuł: Mr Fortune's Maggot
• Autor: Sylvia Townsend Warner
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 256
• EAN: 9780860680437
• ISBN: 0860680436
• ID: 04173057
• Wydawca: Little, Brown Book Group
• Waga: 180 g
• Wymiary: 127 × 197 × 16 mm

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