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Mr. Fortune's Maggot may be the most perfect (even if perfection doesn't admit of degrees) book in the NYRB Classics series — an immaculate work, the story of a missionary on a tiny island in the South Seas who falls in love with a young man (again a daring subject for its day) and loses his faith.

A letter from the editor on Sylvia Townsend Warner 2009

The "maggot" that sticks out of the book's title means foible — Warner alluding almost ironically both to Fortune's falling in love and falling from grace — but it also echoes the names of lute and keyboard fantasies by early English composers like Byrd and Dowland and Gibbons.

From the editor 2009

This edition of Mr. Fortune's Maggot includes "The Salutation" — in which we discover what becomes of Mr. Fortune.

Multimedia 2010

The "maggot" that sticks out of the book's title means foible — Warner alluding almost ironically both to Fortune's falling in love and falling from grace — but it also echoes the names of lute and keyboard fantasies by early English composers like Byrd and Dowland and Gibbons.

A Different Stripe: 2009

Mr. Fortune's Maggot may be the most perfect (even if perfection doesn't admit of degrees) book in the NYRB Classics series — an immaculate work, the story of a missionary on a tiny island in the South Seas who falls in love with a young man (again a daring subject for its day) and loses his faith.

A Different Stripe: 2009

Summer Will Show is perhaps her most out-and-out exciting book, but Lolly Willowes and Mr. Fortune's Maggot are equally good places to start exploring the work of a wonderful writer who seems all the more central because she stands so beautifully apart.

From the editor 2009

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Edward Muzio: Employee Engagement: Nobody Cares Edward Muzio 2011

It also made Corporate Responsibility Magazine's 2010 list of “100 Best Corporate Citizens,” and Fortune's annual listing of the “100 Best Companies to Work For.”

Archive 2010-03-01 Olga Bonfiglio 2010

If you want to cheer up a little, check out Fortune's "100 Best Companies to Work For" list.

Edward Muzio: Employee Engagement: Nobody Cares Edward Muzio 2011

Summer Will Show is perhaps her most out-and-out exciting book, but Lolly Willowes and Mr. Fortune's Maggot are equally good places to start exploring the work of a wonderful writer who seems all the more central because she stands so beautifully apart.

A letter from the editor on Sylvia Townsend Warner 2009