Description
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
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 02/28/2001
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780940322639
ISBN10: 0940322633
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | General
Author: Ivy Compton-Burnett
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 02/28/2001
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780940322639
ISBN10: 0940322633
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | General
About the Author
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.