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Author : Ivy Compton-Burnett
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Manservant and Maidservant written by Ivy Compton-Burnett and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ivy Compton-Burnett
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9780940322646
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (226 download)
Download or read book A House and Its Head written by Ivy Compton-Burnett and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2001-02-28 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 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 : Ivy Compton-Burnett
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9780940322639
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (226 download)
Download or read book Manservant and Maidservant written by Ivy Compton-Burnett and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2001-02-28 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?"
Author : Ivy Compton-Burnett
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Pastors and Masters written by Ivy Compton-Burnett and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2024-05-10T02:09:07Z with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles 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.
Author : I. COMPTON-BURNETT
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331544695
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (446 download)
Download or read book The Present and the Past (Classic Reprint) written by I. COMPTON-BURNETT and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt 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 : Ivy Compton-Burnett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (459 download)
Download or read book Manservant and Maidservant, by I. Compton-Burnett written by Ivy Compton-Burnett and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ivy Compton-Burnett
Publisher : London, Eyre
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book More Women Than Men written by Ivy Compton-Burnett and published by London, Eyre. This book was released on 1951 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carlos Castaneda
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476730989
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book Separate Reality written by Carlos Castaneda and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carlos Castaneda takes the reader into the very heart of sorcery, challenging both imagination and reason, shaking the very foundations of our belief in what is "natural" and "logical." In 1961, a young anthropologist subjected himself to an extraordinary apprenticeship with Yaqui Indian spiritual leader don Juan Matus to bring back a fascinating glimpse of a Yaqui Indian's world of "non-ordinary reality" and the difficult and dangerous road a man must travel to become "a man of knowledge." Yet on the bring of that world, challenging to all that we believe, he drew back. Then in 1968, Carlos Castaneda returned to Mexico, to don Juan and his hallucinogenic drugs, and to a world of experience no man from our Western civilization had ever entered before.
Author : James Schuyler
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590174356
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)
Download or read book What's for Dinner? written by James Schuyler and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Schuyler's utterly original What's for Dinner? features a cast of characters who appear to have escaped from a Norman Rockwell painting to run amok. In tones that are variously droll, deadpan, and lyrical, Schuyler tells a story that revolves around three small-town American households. The Delehanteys are an old-fashioned Catholic family whose twin teenage boys are getting completely out of hand, no matter that their father is hardly one to spare the rod. Childless Norris and Lottie Taylor have been happily married for years, even as Lottie has been slowly drinking herself to death. Mag, a recent widow, is on the prowl for love. Retreating to an institution to dry out, Lottie finds herself caught up in a curious comedy of group therapy manners. At the same time, however, she begins an ascent from the depths of despair—illuminated with the odd grace and humor that readers of Schuyler's masterful poetry know so well—to a new understanding, that will turn her into an improbable redeemer within an unlikely world. What's for Dinner? is among the most delightful and unusual works of American literature. Charming and dark, off-kilter but pedestrian, mercurial yet matter-of-fact, Schuyler's novel is an alluring invention that captures both the fragility and the tenacity of ordinary life.
Author : Rebecca West
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453206981
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book The Fountain Overflows written by Rebecca West and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A talented, eccentric London family tries to find their place in the world in this semiautobiographical novel by a New York Times–bestselling author. Papa Aubrey’s wife and twin daughters, Mary and Rose, are piano prodigies, his young son Richard Quin is a lively boy, and his eldest daughter Cordelia is a beautiful and driven young woman with musical aspirations. But the talented and eccentric Aubrey family rarely enjoys a moment of harmony, as its members struggle to overcome the effects of their patriarch’s spendthrift ways. Now they must move so that their father, a noted journalist, can find stable employment. Throughout, it is the Aubreys’ hope that art will save them from the cacophony of a life sliding toward poverty. In this eloquent and winning portrait, West’s compelling characters must uncover their true talent for kindness in order to thrive in the world that exists outside of their life as a family.
Author : Ivy Compton-Burnett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Reissue of Works written by Ivy Compton-Burnett and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Natalia Ginzburg
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811231011
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Voices in the Evening written by Natalia Ginzburg and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of Italy’s greatest writers, a stunning novel “filled with shimmering, risky, darting observation” (Colm Tóibín) After WWII, a small Italian town struggles to emerge from under the thumb of Fascism. With wit, tenderness, and irony, Elsa, the novel’s narrator, weaves a rich tapestry of provincial Italian life: two generations of neighbors and relatives, their gossip and shattered dreams, their heartbreaks and struggles to find happiness. Elsa wants to imagine a future for herself, free from the expectations and burdens of her town’s history, but the weight of the past will always prove unbearable, insistently posing the question: “Why has everything been ruined?”
Author : Patrick White
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (54 download)
Download or read book The Tree of Man written by Patrick White and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ivy Compton-Burnett
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Men and Wives written by Ivy Compton-Burnett and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : E. Cobham Brewer
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3734093228
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama written by E. Cobham Brewer and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama by E. Cobham Brewer
Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453200878
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book The Philosopher's Pupil written by Iris Murdoch and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York TimesNotable Book: An “ingeniously plotted” tale of tragedy, comedy, and small-town gossip (The New York Times Book Review). The quiet English town of Ennistone is known for its peaceful, relaxing spa—a haven of restoration, rejuvenation, and calm. Until the night George McCaffrey’s car plunges into the cold waters of the canal, carrying with it his wife, Stella. And until the village’s most celebrated son, famed philosopher John Robert Rozanov, returns home, upending the lives of everyone with whom he comes in contact. Stirred up by talk of murder and morality, obsession and lust, religion and righteousness, the residents of Ennistone begin to spiral out of control, searching for answers and redemption for the sins of their peers—and discovering more about themselves than they ever wanted to know. With breakneck plotting and intricately flawed characters, The Philosopher’s Pupil is a darkly humorous novel from the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Sea, The Sea, masterfully exploring the human condition and the inherent blend of comedy and tragedy therein.
Author : Derwent May
Publisher : HarperCollins (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Critical Times written by Derwent May and published by HarperCollins (UK). This book was released on 2001 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and entertaining history of theTimes Literary Supplement,this text is not only a "biography" of an institution, but it is a reflection of the changes in British literature and culture throughout the 20th century. From its first tenuous year in 1902 to its modern-day incarnation, theTimes Literary Supplementhas been home to an astonishing assemblage of outstanding writers. This work also reveals for the first time the identities of the journal's anonymous reviewers since 1902—a tradition which lasted until 1974. Derwent May, formerly of the TLS himself, also examines the ethos and aims of the paper's editors, management, and staff; and the controversies, quarrels, and relations between writers and critics.
