About this title: "A Maggot" is not a historical novel in the normal sense. It began as a quirk or obsession (a 'maggot' in the archaic sense of the word) which found its setting in the second wave of Protestant Dissent in England. It took shape as a mystery - a compelling investigation of unaccountable motives and deeds - which led through beguiling paths to a starling vision at its centre.
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Description: Very Good. B000NUIJAA Great condition Hard cover book with good paper dust jacket cover! Clean pages, corners crisp, dust jacket good but does show some edge rubs, and a tear or two, book club edition, a great book! Shop & Save With US. read more
Edition: 1st (stated)
Binding: Hardbound
Publisher: Little Brown & Co., Boston
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780316289948ISBN:0316289949
Description: Nr Fine in VG DJ / clean / slight edgewear / price clipped / Brown cloth clean / square / text clean / tight / blind stamp / name on F.E.P. / 3rd printing. read more
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company, Boston
Date Published: 1985
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Very good clean tight hardback with only very light general wear. pages clean and unmarked. dust jacket is good with one one tear on front (1/2 inch). good copy. 408 pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Signet
Date Published: September 1986
ISBN-13:9780451144768ISBN:0451144767
Description: Used-Acceptable. Literature & Fiction: Authors, A-Z: ( F ): Fowles, John. First Signet printing. Cover is clean and bright with only a single crease in binding; binding is tight. Unfortunately, some pages are stained at margin/edge area from water damage, otherwise book would be classified in very good condition. Very readable. read more
Edition: Stated First Edition Third Printing
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Little Brown & Co, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780316289948ISBN:0316289949
Description: Near Fine in Fair + to Good- jacket. Hard Cover. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" DJ has heavy wear, price clipped. Book is NF. (Store Display-GF) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown
Date Published: 1985
Description: Very Good in VERY GOOD jacket. Book club edition Nice clean copy! May have price sticker on cover and minor shelfwear. Overall a very good book! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown & Co (T)
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780316289948ISBN:0316289949
Description: Good in Good jacket. -Book Club (BCE/BOMC)--Good jacket. 8vo-over 7 3/4"-9 3/4" tall 408 pgs. Interior-Flawless. The boards and DJ are well preserved w/ only light signs of use. -Publish Place: Boston-Size: read more
"John Fowles' last novel, and certainly his toughest. This is a sort of hybrid Canterbury Tales / Close Encounters. I don't pretend to understand what Fowles attempted here -- all I could decipher was a group of trekking pilgrims in 17th (?) century (it actually felt like an earlier time than that -- almost medieval) England who witness an extra-terrestrial visitation/abduction and have not the language, nor experience to comprehend it. Fowles, interestingly, creates a narrator investigator who tries to piece the entire story together, but the narrator himself comes from a milieu that lacks the vocabulary, context, and understanding to explain such a visit. Even though it's a difficult read, it's not boring. If you're looking for a novel, however, that answers all the questions that its plot raises...this is NOT that novel."
"Interesting thing. No clear cut final answer about what really happened; many pages of testimony, all disagreeing; seems to imply that the girl saw extraterrrestrials in the middle ages, but not confirming it. Seems the main idea is to illustrate, by showing us what the different styles of characters say and do, what different classes of people were like and what their perceptions were like, and WOULD be like in the face of extraordinary events--like Coleridge's project in Lyrical Ballads, 1799. Class, sex, education all shown to be related to one's perceptions. Well done and the style is persuasively "real" and true to the period, compared with genuine old writings. Nice work, but not really satisfying."
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