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A Family and a Fortune
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A Family and a Fortune

Автор: Compton-Burnett Ivy
Язык: английский
Год: 2013
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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.. She takes...
Dolores
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Dolores

Автор: Compton-Burnett Ivy
Язык: английский
Год: 2013
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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, is curiously...
Elders and Betters
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Elders and Betters

Автор: Compton-Burnett Ivy
Язык: английский
Год: 2013
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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...
Men and Wives
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Men and Wives

Автор: Compton-Burnett Ivy
Язык: английский
Год: 2013
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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...
Parents and Children
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Parents and Children

Автор: Compton-Burnett Ivy
Язык: английский
Год: 2013
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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...