Description: Further DetailsTitle: A House and Its HeadCondition: NewEAN: 9781911590392ISBN: 9781911590392Publisher: ONEFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 03/25/2021Item Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmAuthor: Ivy Compton-BurnettContributor: Hilary Mantel (Introduction by)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1911590391Description: It is Christmas Day, 1885, and the Edgeworths are at each other's throats again. Duncan holds his wife and children captive to his authoritarian whims; every day brings fresh struggles for power. Before breakfast is over, there will be presents in the fire.When illness strikes the family, volatile tensions are unleashed that result in scandal, adultery and murder, while a crowd of gossiping neighbours watches gleefully on.A brutally funny demolition of patriarchal authority, A House and Its Head confirms Ivy Compton-Burnett's status as one of the unique stylists of twentieth-century English fiction, and its greatest chronicler of the violent dysfunction of families.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: FictionTopic: Classic FictionRelease Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: A House and Its Head
Publication Name: A House and Its Head
Title: A House and Its Head
EAN: 9781911590392
ISBN: 9781911590392
Publisher: ONE
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 03/25/2021
Release Year: 2021
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 129mm
Author: Ivy Compton-Burnett
Contributor: Hilary Mantel (Introduction by)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1911590391
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Fiction
Topic: Classic Fiction