num_pages: 309
description: 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?
language: English
title: Manservant and Maidservant
titlecomplete: Manservant and Maidservant
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Modern Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Humor, British Literature
ratings_count: 421
publisher: NYRB Classics