# Mr. Fortune

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- Book: [Mr. Fortune](https://www.bookquiver.com/sylvia-townsend-warner/mr-fortune) ([Mr. Fortune.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/sylvia-townsend-warner/mr-fortune.md))
- Authors: [Sylvia Townsend Warner](https://www.bookquiver.com/sylvia-townsend-warner), [Adam Mars-Jones](https://www.bookquiver.com/adam-mars-jones)
- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-15-9017-458-6
- Pages: 248
- Published: 2011-08-16
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

After a decade in one South Seas mission, a London bank-clerk-turned-minister sets his heart on serving a remote volcanic island. Fanua contains neither cannibals nor Christians, but its citizens, his...