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_bM3 2001
082 0 0 _aFIC COM
100 1 _aCompton-Burnett, Ivy
_d, 1884-1969
245 1 0 _aManservant and maidservant
_c/ Ivy Compton-Burnett ; introduction by Diane Johnson
260 _aNew York
_b: New York Review of Books
_c, c2001.
300 _axiii, 309 p.
_c; 21 cm.
440 0 _aNew York Review Books classics
520 _aAt 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?"
650 _aMaster and servant
_x-Fiction
650 _aWomen domestics
_v--Fiction
655 7 _aPsychological fiction
655 _aDomestic fiction
942 _cMO
999 _c261382
_d261382