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product_id: 66001615
title: "A Maggot"
brand: "john fowles"
price: "AED 40"
currency: AED
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reviews_count: 7
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# A Maggot

**Brand:** john fowles
**Price:** AED 40
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** A Maggot by john fowles
- **How much does it cost?** AED 40 with free shipping
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## Description

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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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Please enjoy this fine book!
  

*by R***Y on June 20, 2013*









  
  
    A Maggot is John Fowles' best work. I have a tendency to review my favorite novel of an author and sometimes to comment in passing on his or her other works, simply because to review them all is too much work.The story is about a group of travelers on the road on horseback in the early English seventeen hundreds, from London to Bristol. They travel together for mutual safety against bandits, because the journey was perilous and slow, before roadways as we know them were built.At first the characters appear to be quite unconnected to each other. The first part of the book describes the events of their trip through each other's eyes as they unfold.In fact they are deeply connected in ways they do not understand themselves at the moment of their departure.The second part of the book is written mostly in the first person, by the legal factor of a high English nobleman, anxious to discover what happened to his son along the way. It consists of depositions by the travelers themselves and all possible eyewitnesses.A Maggot is in the end a science fiction novel, the idea  of a future appreciated by no one except perhaps the lawyer, who wonders but is not capable of grasping it.Five stars to Fowles.His other novels seem somehow a little querulous, even the French Lieutenant's Woman.(If this review sounds like an old geezer at work then it is because I are one. Example- the novel was first published as "The Magot", a word few still understand, and then as "A Maggot". A word we all understand. Please enjoy this fine book.)
  


### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Don’t Be Dissuaded By The Title
  

*by J***U on May 17, 2019*









  
  
    In all his books John Fowles proved himself a masterful writer. And this one, like his others, requires a commitment by the reader.  The title of this book is off-putting and gives no hint of the storyline. Furthermore all the dialog in the book is written in the vernacular of 18th century England, making it often difficult for modern readers to follow. But the story is absorbing and unlike anything you have ever read before. It will take you a while to read this book, but it will be time well spent and you will learn a lot in the process. You may even want to read it a second time.
  


### ⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    It's not very good.
  

*by A***E on November 8, 2019*









  
  
    This really isn't a novel as the bulk of it is a very long Q&A!
  


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