SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER — Mr Fortune\S Maggot

UK, Penguin. 1948. Paperback with dust jacket, 18 Cm. Book, Mr. Fortune's Maggot, Sylvia Townsend Warner's second novel, is lyrical, droll, and deeply affecting - after a decade in one South Seas mission, a London bank-clerk-turned-minister sets his heart on serving the remote volcanic island of Fanua, which contains neither cannibals nor Christians, but its citizens, his superior warns, are like children - immoral children! 2 reviews to ponder before purchase >>> What a weird and wonderful book. and >>> I can't imagine anything more compelling-- delightful and devastating-- than Warner's narrative prose, its feather-lightness, its psychic depth, its gallant perversity. 174 Penguinesque pages. Very Good-good/None issued.