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Manservant and maidservant / Ivy Compton-Burnett ; introduction by Diane Johnson

By:

Compton-Burnett, Ivy, , 1884-1969

Material type: Text

TextSeries: New York Review Books classicsPublication details: New York : New York Review of Books , c2001.Description: xiii, 309 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780940322639

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DDC classification:

FIC COM

LOC classification:

PR6005.O3895 M3 2001

Summary: 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?"

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC COM (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Expurgado/No disponible		062379

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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?"

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