The Missionary

By Sydney Owenson Morgan and Lady Morgan

Book Overview

Set in seventeenth-century India, The Missionaryfocuses on the relationship between Hilarion, a Portuguese missionary to India, and Luxima, an Indian prophetess. Both are aristocratic, devoted to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1377536912
• ISBN13: 9781377536910
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Palala Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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.