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A Maggot

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099480419

  • Length: 464  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 29mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 319g

  • RRP: £9.99

A Maggot

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.

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099480419

  • Length: 464  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 29mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 319g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • A remarkable and brilliant work of fiction...the imaginative power of the novel is astounding, the technical virtuosity and structural daring equally so

    The Times

  • This altogether admirable novel serves, as all literature should, the forces of subversion. It is a worthy companion to The French Lieutenant's Woman, which does the same thing, but bolder in its experimentation and hence more notable as an artistic achievement

    Anthony Burgess, Observer

  • Compelling and passionate fiction... Fowles's darting imagination skims across the landscape of two and a half centuries

    Times Literary Supplement

  • Brilliant and compelling...he deploys his usual seductive narrative gifts to great effect

    Guardian

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About the Author

John Fowles

John Fowles was born in 1926. He won international recognition with The Collector, his first published title, in 1963. He was immediately acclaimed as an outstandingly innovative writer of exceptional imaginative power, and this reputation was confirmed with the appearance of his subsequent works: The Aristos, The Magus, The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Ebony Tower, Daniel Martin, Mantissa, and A Maggot. John Fowles died in Lyme Regis in 2005. Two volumes of his Journals have recently been published; the first in 2003, the second in 2006.

John Fowles

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