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Manservant and Maidservant
By Ivy Compton-Burnett and Diane Johnson (introduced by)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher New York Review of Books
Publication date February 1, 2001
Pages 309
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780940322639
ISBN-10 0940322633
Dimensions 0.75 by 5 by 8 in.
Weight 0.75 lbs.
Original list price $17.95
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?"

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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.
Paperback
Book cover for 9780192813800 Book cover for 9780940322639
 
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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.
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

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