A Maggot
Author: John Fowles
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 d….Read More
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