A House and Its Head - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A House and Its Head write by Ivy Compton-Burnett. This book was released on 2001-02-28. A House and Its Head available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A radical thinker, one of the rare modern heretics, said Mary McCarthy of Ivy Compton-Burnett, in whose austere, savage, and bitingly funny novels anything can happen and no one will ever escape. The long, endlessly surprising conversational duels at the center of Compton-Burnett's works are confrontations between the unspoken and the unspeakable, and in them the dynamics of power and desire are dramatized as nowhere else. New York Review Books is reissuing two of the finest novels of this singular modern genius—works that look forward to the blacky comic inventions of Muriel Spark as much as they do back to the drawing rooms of Jane Austen. A House and Its Head is Ivy Compton-Burnett's subversive look at the politics of family life, and perhaps the most unsparing of her novels. No sooner has Duncan Edgeworth's wife died than he takes a new, much younger bride whose willful ways provoke a series of transgressions that begins with adultery and ends, much to everyone's relief, in murder.
Ivy, the Life of I. Compton-Burnett
Ivy, the Life of I. Compton-Burnett - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ivy, the Life of I. Compton-Burnett write by Hilary Spurling. This book was released on 1984. Ivy, the Life of I. Compton-Burnett available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Manservant and Maidservant
Manservant and Maidservant - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Manservant and Maidservant write by Ivy Compton-Burnett. This book was released on 1969. Manservant and Maidservant available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett
The Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett write by Elizabeth Sprigge. This book was released on 1973. The Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Pastors and Masters
Pastors and Masters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pastors and Masters write by Ivy Compton-Burnett. This book was released on 2024-05-10T02:09:07Z. Pastors and Masters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Charles Merry is the senior schoolmaster at a small prep school for boys. He masks his shortcomings, and those of his staff and students, with bluster and bravado. The book explores themes of authenticity, loyalty, love, death, and friendship through dense passages that are often exclusively spoken dialog with minimal supporting text—a style that came to define the author’s future works. Rich with intriguing characters and cleverly constructed conversations, Pastors and Masters was published in 1925 and became the first breakthrough success for its author, Ivy Compton-Burnett. The book was critically acclaimed upon its release and hailed by the New Statesman as “like nothing else in the world” and “a work of genius.” This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
