Manservant and Maidservant
Author: Ivy Compton-Burnett
Publisher:
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13:
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A House and Its Head
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.
Manservant and Maidservant
Author: Ivy Compton-Burnett
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2001-02-28
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780940322639
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt 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?"
Pastors and Masters
Author: Ivy Compton-Burnett
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2024-05-10T02:09:07Z
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13:
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.
Martin Luther's Christmas Book
Author: Martin Luther
Publisher: Augsburg Books
Published:
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9781451414257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMartin Luther's conception of the Nativity found expression in sermon, song, and art. This beautiful gift edition of a classic collection combines all three.
The Tree of Man
Author: Patrick White
Publisher:
Published: 1961
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Present and the Past (Classic Reprint)
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.
Cotton is King, and Pro-slavery Arguments
Author: E. N. Elliott
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1860
Total Pages: 930
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNotes on the Folk-lore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders
Author: William Henderson
Publisher:
Published: 1879
Total Pages: 424
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Author: Eric Greitens
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 054432398X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA masterpiece of warrior wisdom: how to be resilient, how to overcome obstacles not by "positive thinking" or self-esteem, but by positive action. The bestselling author, Navy SEAL, and humanitarian Eric Greitens offers a self-help book unlike any other.
