Manservant and maidservant
Compton-Burnett, Ivy , 1884-1969
Manservant and maidservant / Ivy Compton-Burnett ; introduction by Diane Johnson - New York : New York Review of Books , c2001. - xiii, 309 p. ; 21 cm. - New York Review Books classics .
At once the strangest and most marvelous of Ivy Compton-Burnett's fictions,Manservant and Maidservanthas 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?"
9780940322639
00011547
Master and servant---Fiction
Women domestics----Fiction
Psychological fiction
Domestic fiction
PR6005.O3895 / M3 2001
FIC COM
Manservant and maidservant / Ivy Compton-Burnett ; introduction by Diane Johnson - New York : New York Review of Books , c2001. - xiii, 309 p. ; 21 cm. - New York Review Books classics .
At once the strangest and most marvelous of Ivy Compton-Burnett's fictions,Manservant and Maidservanthas 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?"
9780940322639
00011547
Master and servant---Fiction
Women domestics----Fiction
Psychological fiction
Domestic fiction
PR6005.O3895 / M3 2001
FIC COM
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