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'Witty, poetic, clairvoyant' John Updike

The Reverend Timothy Fortune, ex-clerk of the Hornsey branch of Lloyds Bank, has found his vocation: to convert the inhabitants of the remote tropical island of Fanua to Christianity. Even when everyone except for a young boy called Lueli remains indifferent to his preaching, Mr Fortune's good spirits cannot be dampened - until one day his faith is put to a terrible test.

'This quizzical tale is so intensely moving' Gillian Beer, New Statesman

'Original, elegant and hypnotically strange' Miranda Seymour, The New York Times

'Sylvia Townsend Warner pursues the psychology of the story with beautiful accuracy' John Carey

Lolly Willowes (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

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set in early twentieth century england lolly willowes is a satirical comedy of manners and an early feminist classic with deft storytelling and compelling prose sylvia townsend warner invites you into a world where convention meets enchantment where the line between reality and the supernatural Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

After the Death of Don Juan

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she has a talent amounting to genius john updikedon juan that notorious libertine has disappeared has he been dragged down to hell by demons as rumoured or has he escaped do a ana the woman he tried to seduce will stop at nothing to discover the truth set in a rural eighteenth century s Uiterlijk 16 januari in huis .. MEER INFO

The True Heart

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the kind of novelist who inspires an intense sense of ownership in her fans her sympathies tended naturally to the marginal the vulnerable the exploited the obscure sarah waterssukey bond a sixteen year old orphan is sent to work as a servant at a farm on the remote essex marshes there Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO