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Айви Комптон-Бёрнетт - автор 6 книг. Из известных произведений можно выделить: A House and Its Head, Manservant and Maidservant, Elders and Betters. Все книги можно читать онлайн и бесплатно скачивать на нашем портале.
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 d...
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 ...
Paperback: 120 pages Publisher: Hesperus Press (October 1, 2009) Language: English
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