First published in 1957, this novel consists almosts entirely of dialogue.  The central figure, Miles Mowbray, is one of Compton-Burnett's most successful characters.

A father and his fate, (Reissue of works by I. Compton-Burnett, no. 16)

Compton-Burnett, I.

Gollancz

God and His Gifts

Victor Gollancz

At once the strangest and most marvelous of Ivy Compton-Burnett's fictions, Manservant and Maidservant has for its subject the domestic life of Horace Lamb, sadist, skinflint, and tyrant. But it is when Horace undergoes an altogether unforeseeable change of heart that the real difficulties begin. Is the repentant master a victim along with the former slave? And how can anyone endure the memory of the wrongs that have been done?"

Manservant and maidservant

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