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ISBN: 9781843914532 - Pastors and Masters

Pastors and Masters
Ivy Compton-Burnett

ISBN10: 1843914530 ISBN13: 9781843914532
Publisher: Hesperus Press Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 Sep 2009
""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 appearances, self-avowed intellectual and scholar Nicholas Herrick knows that to involve himself in the... More

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ISBN: 9781448204182 - A Family and a Fortune

A Family and a Fortune
Ivy Compton-Burnett

ISBN10: 1448204186 ISBN13: 9781448204182
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Reader
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 14 Aug 2012
Edwin Muir wrote of Ivy Compton-Burnett in the Observer: 'Her literary abilities have been abundantly acknowledged by the majority of her literary contemporaries. Her intense individuality has removed her from the possibility of rivalry... More

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ISBN: 9781448204243 - A Heritage and Its History

A Heritage and Its History
Ivy Compton-Burnett

ISBN10: 1448204240 ISBN13: 9781448204243
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Reader
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 14 Aug 2012
A Heritage and its History tells the story of 69 year old Sir Edwin Challoner, and his extended family.Unmarried, and with no direct issue, Challoner's closest relation, and business associate, is his younger brother Hamish.When Hamish dies of a... More

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ISBN: 9781448206643 - The Present and the Past

The Present and the Past
Ivy Compton-Burnett

ISBN10: 1448206642 ISBN13: 9781448206643
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Reader
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 14 Aug 2012
'I cannot be parted longer from my sons...I am coming back to my home' Nine years after her divorce from Cassius Clare, Catherine decides to re-enter his life. Her decision causes a dramatic upheaval in the Clare family and its implications are... More

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Dolores
Ivy Compton-Burnett

ISBN10: 1448206634 ISBN13: 9781448206636
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Reader
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 14 Aug 2012
The first edition of Dolores was published in 1911. It sold well, and was promptly forgotten. Now that her career of sixty years is ended, and her long achievement more and more acclaimed, Dolores, standing at that remote beginning... More

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ISBN: 9781448206629 - The Last and the First

The Last and the First
Ivy Compton-Burnett

ISBN10: 1448206626 ISBN13: 9781448206629
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Reader
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 14 Aug 2012
The Last and the First was Ivy Compton-Burnett's final novel. In it she deals with her familiar themes - tyranny, power and corruption. Although the novel was unfinished at the time of her death in 1969, it combines the brilliant wit and incisive... More

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ISBN: 9781448206650 - Two Worlds and Their Ways

Two Worlds and Their Ways
Ivy Compton-Burnett

ISBN10: 1448206650 ISBN13: 9781448206650
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Reader
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 14 Aug 2012
Sefton and his sister Clemence are dispatched to separate boarding schools. Their father's second marriage, their mother's economies, provide perfect opportunities for mockery, and home becomes a source of shame. More wretched is their mother's... More

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Men and Wives
Ivy Compton-Burnett

ISBN10: 1448200946 ISBN13: 9781448200948
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Reader
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 14 Aug 2012
At the centre of this novel stands Harriet Haslam, the epitome of the maternal power figure,whose genuine but overpowering love dominates the novel and whose self-knowledge drives her into insanity. Even after her death Harriet continues to dominate. More

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ISBN: 9781448200931 - Elders and Betters

Elders and Betters
Ivy Compton-Burnett

ISBN10: 1448200938 ISBN13: 9781448200931
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Reader
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 14 Aug 2012
The Donne family's move to the country is inspired by a wish to be close to their cousins, who are to be their nearest neighbours. It proves too close for comfort, however. For a secret switching of wills causes the most genteel pursuit of self... More

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ISBN: 9781448201259 - Parents and Children

Parents and Children
Ivy Compton-Burnett

ISBN10: 144820125X ISBN13: 9781448201259
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Reader
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 14 Aug 2012
Eleanor and Fulbert Sullivan live, with their nine children ranging from nursery to university age, in a huge country house belonging to Fulbert's parents, Sir Jesse and Lady Regan. Sir Jesse sends Fulbert, his only son, on a business mission to... More

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