num_pages: 464
description: In his prologue, John Fowles tells us that "A Maggot" began as a vision he had of five travellers riding with mysterious purpose through remote countryside. This image gives way to another - a hanging corpse with violets stuffed in its mouth - which leads us into a maze of beguiling paths and wrong turnings, disappearances and revelations, unaccountable motives and cryptic deeds, as this compelling mystery swerves towards a starling vision at its centre.
language: English
title: A Maggot
titlecomplete: A Maggot
genres: Fiction, Historical, Magical Realism, Mystery, British Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 3263
places: Devon, England, United Kingdom
publisher: Vintage Books