Manservant and Maidservant by Compton-Burnett, Ivy

Manservant and Maidservant (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780940322639)

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Manservant and Maidservant by Compton-Burnett, Ivy

Manservant and Maidservant

$18.95
Manservant and Maidservant by Compton-Burnett, Ivy

Manservant and Maidservant

$18.95
Format: Paperback
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At once the strangest and most marvelous of Ivy Compton-Burnett's fictions, Manservant and Maidservant has for its subject the domestic life of Horace Lamb, sadist, skinflint, and tyrant. But it is when Horace undergoes an altogether unforeseeable change of heart that the real difficulties begin. Is the repentant master a victim along with the former slave? And how can anyone endure the memory of the wrongs that have been done?"

Author: Ivy Compton-Burnett
ISBN-10: 0940322633
ISBN-13: 9780940322639
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 02/28/2001
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 05/27/2001 pg. 20
By Ivy Compton-Burnett
By Ivy Compton-Burnett
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Ivy Compton-Burnett (1892-1969) wrote over fifteen novels about the upper classes of the late Victorian period. The novels are constructed almost entirely of seemingly banal dialogue that eventually reveals, beneath its surface, the truths of human nature and insights into human relationships which Compton-Burnett took as her themes. Her works include Pastors and Masters, A Family and a Fortune, Manservant and Maidservant, and A House and Its Head.

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