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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 07/11/1996
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ISBN: 9780099480419
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Length: 464 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 29mm x 129mm
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Weight: 319g
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RRP: £9.99
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.
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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 07/11/1996
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ISBN: 9780099480419
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Length: 464 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 29mm x 129mm
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Weight: 319g
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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"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
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"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
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"Compelling and passionate fiction... Fowles's darting imagination skims across the landscape of two and a half centuries"
Times Literary Supplement
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"Brilliant and compelling...he deploys his usual seductive narrative gifts to great effect"
Guardian
