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Author: Ivy Compton-Burnett
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Published: 2024-02-15
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ISBN-13: 9781963228182
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA short character study of masculine authority and female subservience within the setting of a boys preparatory school after World War I.
Author: Ivy Compton-Burnett
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2001-02-28
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780940322646
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA radical thinker, one of the rare modern heretics, said Mary McCarthy of Ivy Compton-Burnett, in whose austere, savage, and bitingly funny novels anything can happen and no one will ever escape. The long, endlessly surprising conversational duels at the center of Compton-Burnett's works are confrontations between the unspoken and the unspeakable, and in them the dynamics of power and desire are dramatized as nowhere else. New York Review Books is reissuing two of the finest novels of this singular modern genius—works that look forward to the blacky comic inventions of Muriel Spark as much as they do back to the drawing rooms of Jane Austen. A House and Its Head is Ivy Compton-Burnett's subversive look at the politics of family life, and perhaps the most unsparing of her novels. No sooner has Duncan Edgeworth's wife died than he takes a new, much younger bride whose willful ways provoke a series of transgressions that begins with adultery and ends, much to everyone's relief, in murder.
Author: I. COMPTON-BURNETT
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-11-20
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780331544695
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from The Present and the Past Another member of the family was giving his attention to the fowls. He was earnestly thrusting cake through the wire for their entertainment. When he dropped a piece he picked it up and put it into his own mouth, as though it had been rendered unfit for poultry's consumption. 'his elders appeared to view his attitude either in indifference or sympathy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: John Henry Bernard
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 280
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Published: 1972
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Published: 1861
Total Pages: 300
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Walter Lock
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 236
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John D. Suk
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2011-09-02
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 0802866506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 2002, while touring North America with his wife in an RV, John Suk -- lifelong Christian, longtime pastor, and noted leader in the Christian Reformed Church -- experienced a crippling crisis of faith. He emerged from that dark time with a strange new gift -- doubt. In Not Sure Suk takes readers on an eyes-wide-open, deeply personal voyage through the past and present of Christian belief, reexamining Christian faith -- in his own life and in fifteen centuries of Christian history -- through a skeptic's eyes. He exposes major pitfalls of modern Christian movements and questions what he considers to be faulty paradigms: the "personal relationship with Jesus," the "health-and-wealth gospel," and traditional ethnicity-based belief systems. In the end he is left clinging to what is for him a truer, wiser kind of faith in Jesus Christ -- faith that struggles and lives with doubt.
Author: Ivy Compton-Burnett
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2024-05-10T02:09:07Z
Total Pages: 105
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharles Merry is the senior schoolmaster at a small prep school for boys. He masks his shortcomings, and those of his staff and students, with bluster and bravado. The book explores themes of authenticity, loyalty, love, death, and friendship through dense passages that are often exclusively spoken dialog with minimal supporting text—a style that came to define the author’s future works. Rich with intriguing characters and cleverly constructed conversations, Pastors and Masters was published in 1925 and became the first breakthrough success for its author, Ivy Compton-Burnett. The book was critically acclaimed upon its release and hailed by the New Statesman as “like nothing else in the world” and “a work of genius.” This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
