A Maggot
Format: kindle
ASIN: B00AWBU39U
Publish date: April 2nd 2013
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Pages no: 455
Edition language: English
Opening: A maggot is the larval stage of a winged creature; as is the written text, at least in the writer's hope.In here is a character called Dorcas and for those of us who have watched and/or read Lark Rise to Candleford the phrase "what would Dorcas Lane do?" Is enough to send one to hide behind...
_A Maggot_ is an interesting novel. It can be approached as an historical mystery, a meta-fictional experiment of mixed narrative form and genre, and a meditation on the injustices inherent in the 18th century social, political and religious mindset. The story proper details a mysterious journey und...
i tried reading this when i was 15, i think around the time it first came out. perhaps i was too ambitious, because the novel was too much for me, and i gave up. i suppose i just didn't get it. but i can be competitive - even with books, even with myself. so i promised young mark monday that the bat...