More Women Than Men, Paperback - Ivy Compton-Burnett

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

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...

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

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

Do women talk more than men? Does text messaging make you stupid? Can chimpanzees really talk to us? This fascinating textbook addresses a wide ran...

Reducere. Read about the fascinating childhoods of more than 700 famous peopleThe 1962 provocative classic by Victor and Mildred Goertzel is printed here in ...

Reducere. Through a process of exhaustive man research he calls "keeping his eyes open, " Dick Masterson has compiled a Magnum-size list of the ways men are ...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Annabelle WilliamsNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 145 x 197 x 25Cover type: Paperback ...

Profiles of great women, too long overshadowed by their writer or artist husbands, boyfriends and lovers

Reducere. How did Arizona become the amazing state that it is today you may wonder? More than Petticoats: Remarkable Arizona Women recognizes the women who s...

Publisher: Transworld Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Mary Ann SieghartNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 196 x 27Cover type: Pap...

... a much-needed volume on a neglected topic that is of great interest to scholars of women, slavery, and African American history." --Drew FaustG...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Discover the Truth About God's Sovereignty from the Bible's Really Bad Girls. Eight of the Bible's most notorious females strut across the pages of...

Reducere. Canadian women have long been trailblazers, creating art, making discoveries and setting records - and often battling incredible odds and discrimin...

Reducere. What can the Bible's most flawed men and women reveal about who God is and how he reaches out to less-than-perfect people? In Less Than Perfect, be...

Reducere. MORE PRECIOUS THAN PEARLS looks at nuances specifically related to women in the Hebrew text of the Bible that are often obscured in English transla...

Reducere. From the award-winning Southern lifestyle magazine Garden & Gun comes this rich collection of some of the South's most notable women.For too long, ...

A gloriously illustrated celebration of female beauty over 40 and an empowering handbook to aging happily and wellYou become what you see. The most...

Description"Offering an alternative, female-focused history, Women in Design is an essential new tome dedicated to the innovators who have shaped t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Liz HuntleyScared, abused and taken to the limit of a person's capacity to endure tragedy, Elizabeth "Liz" Huntley reveals ...

Reducere. And, as always, WHO'S LOOKING AFTER THE CHILDREN?Now with ageing parents, teenage daughters, a bigger bum and a To-Do list without end, Caitlin Mor...

Reducere. From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Shayla Black comes a new story in her More Than Words series...Can I convince her our hot but ...

This book details the history of the club from 1899 through present day; lists league results, biographies of current star players (including Messi...

Reducere. Controversial and exhaustively researched, gender expert Warren Farrell's latest book Why Men Earn More takes as its stunning argument the idea tha...

One sheep's farmyard odyssey.Publisher: Templar PublishingAuthor(s): Bethany ChristouNumber of pages: 40Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 363 x 295...

In this follow-up to his bestselling A Force Like No Other, Colin Breen brings together more compelling insider stories from RUC officers who serve...

Reducere. Picking up where the best-selling IDITAROD CLASSICS left off, this new collection of insightful and hair-raising stories introduces readers to more...

Reducere. A great school is so much more than a building... it is a place where children feel accepted for who they are. It is a place where kindness and emp...

Reducere. "Princess Kiana was lying in bed. 'Life in the castle is boring ' she said. 'I've got many things, but I need something more. There's so much out t...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVELAN LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE, MYSTERY & THRILLER FINALIST AN INTERNATIONAL THRILLER WRITERS FINALIST, BEST ...

Reducere. This book lifts up women of the Hebrew Bible who, working with the Divine, play amazing roles in the stories of Israel--prophet, judge, worship lea...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jennae CeceliaHow often do you daydream? For most, it is many times a day. We stare out the window instead of the task in f...

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