A Maggot
by Fowles, John
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0224028065
- ISBN 13
- 9780224028066
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About This Item
Jonathan Cape, 1985. 1st edition.. Hardback. Imitation cloth, dj F/VG+. 460pp, fore edge a little foxed, price clipped dustjacket a little bumped at the edges & with a small scuff to the base of the spine, and some fading to the upper panel. The author's sixth novel, a postmodernist work set in England in 1737, although Fowles denied it was a work of historical fiction.
Synopsis
A Maggot (1985) is a novel by British author John Fowles. It is Fowles' sixth major novel, following The Collector, The Magus, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Daniel Martin, and Mantissa. Its title, as the author explains in the prologue, is taken from the archaic sense of the word that means "whim", "quirk", "obsession", or even a snatch of music.
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- Bookseller
- Eastleach Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59263
- Title
- A Maggot
- Author
- Fowles, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0224028065
- ISBN 13
- 9780224028066
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- ISBN 0224028065, fiction
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