Manservant and Maidservant - Brossura

Compton-Burnett, Ivy

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ISBN 10: 0940322633 ISBN 13: 9780940322639

Casa editrice: New York Review of Books, 2001

Riassunto

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?"

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Informazioni sull?autore

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. 

Diane Johnson’s most recent novel is Lulu in Marrakech.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: New York Review of Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0940322633
• ISBN 13: 9780940322639
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 309
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile