Manservant and Maidservant (New York Review Books Classics) - Softcover

Compton-Burnett, Ivy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0940322633 ISBN 13: 9780940322639

Publisher: New York Review of Books, 2001

Synopsis

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?"

About this title

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.

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

Edition details

• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0940322633
• ISBN 13: 9780940322639
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328