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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
David & Charles
Publication date
June 1, 1947
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780575027060
ISBN-10
0575027061
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$18.95
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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?"
Editions
Hardcover
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from David & Charles (June 1, 1947)
9780575027060 | details & prices | List price $18.95
About: 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.
About: 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.
Paperback
With Diane Johnson (other contributor) |
from New York Review of Books (February 1, 2001)
9780940322639 | details & prices | 309 pages | 5.00 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $17.95
About: 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.
About: 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.
With Penelope Lively (other contributor) |
Reprint edition from Oxford Univ Pr (September 1, 1984)
9780192813800 | details & prices | List price $5.95
About: The tyrannical Horace Lamb abuses his household by his oppressive manipulations of his wife, cousin, children, and servants
About: The tyrannical Horace Lamb abuses his household by his oppressive manipulations of his wife, cousin, children, and servants
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