A Maggot
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: No markings
A haunting work of postmodern historical fiction, A Maggot chronicles the mysterious disappearance of an unidentified nobleman and his small band of travelers in 1736 England, unraveling the strange events through a series of depositions, letters, and legal testimonies. John Fowles constructs a labyrinthine narrative that refuses easy resolution, blending elements of detective fiction, supernatural mystery, and 18th-century literary pastiche to deeply unsettling effect. The novel presents a cast of unreliable witnesses whose contradictory accounts force the reader to confront the limits of truth, memory, and historical record. At its philosophical core, it argues that the past is ultimately unknowable, and that the act of storytelling is itself an act of invention. Dark, intellectually provocative, and written with Fowles's characteristic erudition, the work stands as one of his most ambitious and enigmatic achievements.
Author: John Fowles
Format: Hardback
Published: 1985, Jonathan Cape
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: No markings
A haunting work of postmodern historical fiction, A Maggot chronicles the mysterious disappearance of an unidentified nobleman and his small band of travelers in 1736 England, unraveling the strange events through a series of depositions, letters, and legal testimonies. John Fowles constructs a labyrinthine narrative that refuses easy resolution, blending elements of detective fiction, supernatural mystery, and 18th-century literary pastiche to deeply unsettling effect. The novel presents a cast of unreliable witnesses whose contradictory accounts force the reader to confront the limits of truth, memory, and historical record. At its philosophical core, it argues that the past is ultimately unknowable, and that the act of storytelling is itself an act of invention. Dark, intellectually provocative, and written with Fowles's characteristic erudition, the work stands as one of his most ambitious and enigmatic achievements.