With his wife's death, Ninian Middleton turned to his eldest daughter, Lavinia, as a companion. W...

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

''The merriest tale of human depravity you will ever read'' HILARY MANTELIvy Compton-Burnett''s m...

''Original, artful and elegant... To read her for the first time is a singular experience'' Hilar...

Reissue of a caustically witty story of the tensions and petty tyrannies in a Victorian household...

''Original, artful and elegant... To read her for the first time is a singular experience'' Hilar...

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...

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

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