House and Its Head, Paperback - Ivy Compton-Burnett

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

Reducere. A radical thinker, one of the rare modern heretics, said Mary McCarthy of Ivy Compton-Burnett, in whose austere, savage, and bitingly funny novels ...

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

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

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...

Reducere. Description"The sight of duty does make one shiver, " said Miss Herrick. "The actual doing of it would kill one, I think." Ever anxious to keep up ...

Reducere. At once the strangest and most marvelous of Ivy Compton-Burnett's fictions, Manservant and Maidservant has for its subject the domestic life of Hor...

Reducere. "The Head of the House of Coombe" - Lord Coombe is considered to be the best-dressed man in London. During one of his social forays, he meets a sel...

Publisher: Hirmer VerlagIllustration(s): 200 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 236 x 299 x 25Cover type: Ha...

Publisher: Left Field EditionsAuthor(s): Valerie ThomasIllustration(s): 72 colour & black & whitePublication date: 2020Dimensions: 200 x 253 x 29Co...

The highly praised biography of an archetypal great house and the family who lived there for over 250 years.

Publisher: Fircone Books LtdAuthor(s): Ralph BeardmoreIllustration(s): black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2020Dimen...

Reducere. It's happened to all of us at some point. You walk into the kitchen, or flip open your laptop, or stride confidently up to a lectern, filled with p...

The final outrageous adventure of the infuriating anti-heroine, Ivy Pocket. With breathtaking adventure, courage and frightful danger, it is illust...

Reducere. Meet the girl who ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE is trying to avoid The completely unreliable and totally irrepressible Ivy Pocket must orchestrate a most dar...

Reducere. 1. Clergy (1: 32) 2. 3/5's Of A Mile In 10 Seconds (4: 37) 3. Somebody To Love (3: 46) 4. Fat Angel (7: 29) 5. Rock Me Baby (7: 40) 6. The Other Si...

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The Cosmos Explained pinpoints where you are in space and time, charting the life of our universe from the Big Bang to the future of our galaxy and...

Reducere. Detective Sarah Pribek has seen what happens when a cop goes rogue in pursuit of justice: Her husband Shiloh is in a Wisconsin prison, serving the ...

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Includes character guide, author's introduction, Jacqueline Wilson on her love of the book, character and book quizzes, author info, glossary, and ...

Reducere. Head Cases takes us into the dark side of the brain in an astonishing sequence of stories, at once true and strange, from the world of brain damage...

Cand Mary Lennox ajunge la mosia sumbra a unchiului sau, se simte deznadajduita si singura. Insa casa se dovedeste a fi plina de secrete captivante...

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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Reducere. DescriptionIt's Always Four O'Clock When Stan first meets Royal Mauch, he isn't impressed. He's digging the scene at the Treble Clef and Royal, thi...

Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UKAuthor(s): Frances Hodgson BurnettNumber of pages: 352Collection: The SisterhoodPublication date: 2022...

New from the Top Author of Inspirational Regency RomanceReturn to Ivy Hill in The Ladies of Ivy Cottage as friendships deepen, romances blossom, an...

Contributor(s): Author: Julie KlassenMuch has happened in idyllic Ivy Hill in recent months, and while several villagers have found new love and pu...

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Ronni Ashcroft uncovers a human organ trafficking ring in this suspense thriller.

Thousands of books have been written about the right things to do in sales. Sales Insanity is the EXACT OPPOSITE of those books. Rather than extoll...