Mr. Fortune's Maggot
Subtitle: and, The Salutation
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner ; introduction by Adam Mars-Jones.
Contributors: Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 1893-
Series: New York Review Books classics
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: British -- Oceania -- Fiction; British -- Brazil -- Fiction; Missionaries -- Fiction; Widows -- Fiction; Boys -- Fiction; Oceania -- Fiction; Brazil -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Mr. Fortune's maggot; and, The salutation; Salutation.
Description: "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 children - 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." "Long after the book'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."--Jacket.