»Wahnsinnig lustig und erschütternd ... wie Jane Austen auf Droge.« Harper's Magazine Ein Weihnac...

»Wahnsinnig lustig und erschütternd ... wie Jane Austen auf Droge.« Harper's Magazine Ein Weihnac...

Acerbic, brutal and mordantly funny: Ivy ComptonBurnett's most unsparing dissection of the patria...

Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884-1969) was a reclusive novelist who in the 1950s became known in literar...

Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884-1969) was a reclusive novelist who in the 1950s became known in literar...

The electrically witty story of a headmistress struggling to retain an iron grip on the hidden pl...

A House and Its Head is Ivy Compton-Burnett's subversive look at the politics of family life, and...

Tradimenti, incesti, ricatti, odi repressi: forse nessuno meglio della 'Grande Signorina' - così ...

Harriet Haslam, severa madre di famiglia, è in grado di scatenare un uragano con poche parole, co...

In una prospera cittadina inglese a inizio Novecento, un grande istituto femminile è diretto da J...

Il patriarcato trova la sua più fedele espressione nella figura di Duncan Edgeworth: padre tirann...

'The sight of duty does make one shiver,' said Miss Herrick. 'The actual doing of it would kill o...

At once the strangest and most marvelous of Ivy Compton-Burnett's fictions, Manservant and Maidse...

Criados Y Doncellas

Una Herencia Y Su Historia

Padres E Hijos

The Present and the Past

This novel, first published in 1953, explores the tensions and secrets that simmer beneath the su...