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Mr. Fortune (New York Review Books Classics)

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Mr. Fortune (New York Review Books Classics)
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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 childrenâ€”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. Fortuneâ€™s Maggot, Sylvia Townsend Warnerâ€™s follow-up to Lolly Willowes, is lyrical, droll, and deeply affecting, and her missionary captivated his creator as much as he did her readers.

Long after the workâ€™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. Fortuneâ€™s Maggot and its sequel are now available in one volume. They show Sylvia Townsend Warner at the height of her powers.
Country USA
Brand New York Review of Books
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Paperback
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2011-08-16
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781590174586

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