Daughters and Sons, Paperback - Ivy Compton-Burnett

'Shrewd, sly, mordantly funny and magnificently odd, few literary voices are as distinctive, or as entertaining, as Ivy Compton-Burnett's. To see a...

A ruthless satire of power struggles and petty economies, Manservant and Maidservant exposes the violence and cruelty at the core of Victorian fami...

Acerbic, brutal and mordantly funny: Ivy ComptonBurnett's most unsparing dissection of the patriarchal family, finally back in print.

The electrically witty story of a headmistress struggling to retain an iron grip on the hidden plots and allegiances in her girls' school, reissued...

Reducere. Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884-1969) was a reclusive novelist who in the 1950s became known in literary circles as "the English Secret, " and was consid...

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A remarkably honest and moving account of fathering over the past century, with a particular focus on Richard Madeley's own turbulent family history.

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Turgenev's timeless tale of generational collision, in a sparkling new translation When Arkady Petrovich returns home from college, his father find...

Gloria Wilson documents the Peterhead yard of Richard Irvin & Sons, and the wooden craft for which it became renowned. Some one hundred of her phot...

When a young graduate returns home he is accompanied, much to his father and uncle's discomfort, by a strange friend "who doesn't acknowledge any a...

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Comedian and actress Arden Myrin delivers a hilarious and heartfelt memoir about navigating adulthood and her rise on the comedy scene despite an u...

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Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Marco PreshevskiIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 226Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 156 x 233 x...

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