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Hardcover:
9780575015784 | David & Charles, June 1, 1941, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Eleanor and Fulbert Sullivan live, with their nine children ranging from nursery to university age, in a huge country house belonging to Fulbert's parents, Sir Jesse and Lady Regan.
Paperback:
9780140030907 | Viking Pr, April 1, 1986, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Eleanor Sullivan begins to feel trapped in her life with nine children in the house of her husband's parents
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9780575027237 | David & Charles, June 1, 1959, cover price $16.95
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9781448204243, titled "A Heritage and Its History" | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, December 20, 2012), cover price $14.99
9781853812811, titled "A Heritage and Its History" | Virago Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $11.95
The Donne family's move to the country is inspired by a wish to be close to their cousins, who are to be their nearest neighbours. It proves too close for comfort, however. For a secret switching of wills causes the most genteel pursuit of self-interest to threaten good relations and even good manners...Ivy Compton-Burnett employs her sharp ear for comedy and celebrated powers of dialogue to spectacular effect. She reveals a devastating microcosm of human society, in which the elders are by no means always the betters, in which no character is totally scrupulous, but none without their appeal.
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9780575023710 | David & Charles, June 1, 1944, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The Donne family's move to the country is inspired by a wish to be close to their cousins, who are to be their nearest neighbours.
Paperback:
9781448200931 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, December 20, 2012), cover price $17.99
9780805282115 | Schocken Books, October 1, 1984, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: The Donne family moves to the country in order to be closer to their cousins, but the move results in a changed will and strained relations
Harriet Haslam, a powerful matriarch who gradually becomes insane, continues to influence the family even after her death
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9781448200948 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, December 20, 2012), cover price $16.99
9780805282153 | Schocken Books, October 1, 1984, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Harriet Haslam, a powerful matriarch who gradually becomes insane, continues to influence the family even after her death
Dudley Gaveston's inheritance from an elderly godfather changes his relationship with his brother's family
Hardcover:
9780575025790 | David & Charles, June 1, 1939, cover price $24.95
Paperback:
9781448204182, titled "A Family and a Fortune" | Bloomsbury USA Academic, August 14, 2012, cover price $16.99
9780140017137, titled "A Family and a Fortune" | Viking Pr, August 1, 1983, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Dudley Gaveston's inheritance from an elderly godfather changes his relationship with his brother's family
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9788426416568 | Lumen Editorial, June 1, 2008, cover price $28.95
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9788426416308 | Lumen Editorial, October 30, 2007, cover price $25.95
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9780575027060 | David & Charles, June 1, 1947, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: 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:
9780940322639 | New York Review of Books, February 1, 2001, cover price $17.95
9780192813800 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 1984), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: The tyrannical Horace Lamb abuses his household by his oppressive manipulations of his wife, cousin, children, and servants
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9780940322646 | New York Review of Books, February 1, 2001, cover price $17.95
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9781853812910 | Reprint edition (Virago Pr, March 1, 1994), cover price $11.95
When Catherine becomes determined to re-enter the life of her former husband, he is angered by the friendship that develops between Catherine and his second wife
Hardcover:
9780575014169 | Victor Gollancz, June 1, 1953, cover price $17.95
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9780140183269 | Viking Pr, April 1, 1986, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: When Catherine becomes determined to re-enter the life of her former husband, he is angered by the friendship that develops between Catherine and his second wife
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781850898283 | Isis Audio, September 1, 1993, cover price $61.95
Paperback:
9781853811777 | Reprint edition (Virago Pr, July 1, 1992), cover price $11.95
Paperback:
9781853811760 | Reprint edition (Virago Pr, July 1, 1992), cover price $11.95
Believing his wife dead, Miles Mowbray, a domineering father to his three grown daughters, decides to marry the fiancee of his nephew and heir
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9780192818539 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, April 1, 1986), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Believing his wife dead, Miles Mowbray, a domineering father to his three grown daughters, decides to marry the fiancee of his nephew and heir
Sabine Ponsonby, eighty-five, is determined to keep complete control over her home and the lives of all her family
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9780805282146 | Schocken Books, December 1, 1984, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Sabine Ponsonby, eighty-five, is determined to keep complete control over her home and the lives of all her family
Josephine Napier, headmistress of a British girls' school, finds her absolute control over the school threatened by events in the past
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9780805282108 | Schocken Books, October 1, 1984, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Josephine Napier, headmistress of a British girls' school, finds her absolute control over the school threatened by events in the past
Nicholas Herrick, despite little talent, is determined to make his literary contribution to the world
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9780575014176 | Intl Pubn Service, June 1, 1967, cover price $11.25 | About this edition: "The sight of duty does make one shiver," said Miss Herrick.
Paperback:
9780805282122 | Schocken Books, October 1, 1984, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Nicholas Herrick, despite little talent, is determined to make his literary contribution to the world
Hardcover:
9780575018945 | David & Charles, June 1, 1950, cover price $14.95
Paperback:
9780805282139 | Schocken Books, October 1, 1984, cover price $5.95
Hardcover:
9780575006140 | David & Charles, June 1, 1971, cover price $18.95
Hardcover:
9780575034778 | David & Charles, June 1, 1951, cover price $22.95
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