Mr Fortune's Maggot

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The Reverend Timothy Fortune, ex-bank clerk, has spent ten years as a South Seas Island missionary when a "maggot" impels him to embark on an assignment to the even more remote island of Fanua, where a white man is a rarity. Mr. Fortune is a good man, humble and 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 that is shattering.

• Author
• Sylvia Townsend Warner

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 256

• Publisher
• Virago

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780860680437

• Genres
• fiction, classics

• Release date
• 1990