Manservant and Maidservant
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| Author | Ivy Compton-Burnett |
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| Released | 1947 |
Manservant and Maidservant is a 1947 novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett.
It is her one novel to be successful in the United States, where it was published under the title "Bullivant and the Lambs." Whenever Ivy was asked which of her novels were her favorites, she always mentioned "Manservant and Maidservant" and A House and Its Head.
"Manservant and Maidservant is among the funniest and most surprising of Compton-Burnett's inventions. It focuses on the household of Horace Lamb, sadist, skinflint, and tyrant, a man whose children fear and hate him and whose wife is planning to elope. But it is when Horace undergoes an altogether unforeseeable change of heart that the real difficulties begin."
— from the back cover of the New York Review Books edition, 2001
