The Missionary: An Indian Tale

by Sydney Owenson Morgan and Lady Morgan

Book Overview

Sydney, Lady Morgan (1781 - 1859), was an Irish novelist, best known as the author of The Wild Irish Girl. She was one of the most vivid and hotly discussed literary figures of her generation. She... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551112639
• ISBN13: 9781551112633
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Broadview Press Inc
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

wacky erotic colonial tale

This book is so insanely over-the-top that I think it has been written off, but I highly recommend it. I think it was much better than Owenson's Wild Irish Girl and much more radical (in some ways) than its counterpart. An Oriental tale set in India with a Portuguese missionary and a Hindu woman-goddess, it doesn't get any better than that! Owenson's convoluted plot could be critiqued from a literary standpoint, but I think its value as a mirror of confused cultural and political values more than makes up for it.