The electrically witty story of a headmistress struggling to retain an iron grip on the hidden pl...

A House and Its Head is Ivy Compton-Burnett's subversive look at the politics of family life, and...

Acerbic, brutal and mordantly funny: Ivy ComptonBurnett's most unsparing dissection of the patria...

»Wahnsinnig lustig und erschütternd ... wie Jane Austen auf Droge.« Harper's Magazine Ein Weihnac...

»Wahnsinnig lustig und erschütternd ... wie Jane Austen auf Droge.« Harper's Magazine Ein Weihnac...

Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884-1969) was a reclusive novelist who in the 1950s became known in literar...

Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884-1969) was a reclusive novelist who in the 1950s became known in literar...

'Precise, poised, studied, epigrammatic artistry.' -- Kirkus. In this dark comedy, the egotistica...

'The sight of duty does make one shiver,' said Miss Herrick. 'The actual doing of it would kill o...

At once the strangest and most marvelous of Ivy Compton-Burnett's fictions, Manservant and Maidse...

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