10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMPTON-BURNETT»
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The Great Thing About Burnett Is That He Is Eminently Readable. The Short Write-Up On The Factual Details Of Dr. Burnett S Life Presented In This Work Is Quite Bare And Stark. A Compilation Of All The Burnett Titles.
James Compton Burnett, H. L. Chitkara, 2002
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Manservant and Maidservant
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.
Ivy Compton-Burnett, 2001
A House and Its Head is Ivy Compton-Burnett's subversive look at the politics of family life, and perhaps the most unsparing of her novels.
Ivy Compton-Burnett, 2001
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Vaccinosis and Its Cure by Thuja
For Burnett, vaccinosis is a sub-division of sycosis; and its recognition of considerable utility in the consulting-room and at the bedside.
The exacting Miranda's search for a suitable companion brings her family into contact with a very different kind of household, raising a plenitude of questions about the ability to manage alone, the difficulties of living with strangers and ...
Ivy Compton-Burnett, 2012
First published in 1944, Ivy Compton-Burnett employs her sharp ear for comedy and celebrated powers of dialogue to spectacular effect.
Ivy Compton-Burnett, 2011
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Ivy
Compton-
Burnett and Her Art
SECTION II BIOGRAPHICAL INFLUENCES Ivy Compton-Burnett is modern not
because of her material, not even because of her technique but because she
happened to live in modern times. Ivy Complon- Burnett was born on June 5,
1884 at ...
Parents and Children is less savage in theme than some of Ivy Compton-Burnett's fiction and, with its richly funny scenes with the children and happily resolved ending, makes a perfect introduction to this distinguished author's highly ...
Ivy Compton-Burnett, 2011
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Fistula and Its Radical Cure
During the past fifteen years a considerable number of cases of diseases of the anal & intercrural regions have been under my professional care notably cases of haemorrhoids and cocele.
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Fifty Reasons for Being a Homoeopath
Here Dr. J.C. Burnett relates his experiences and his conversion from allopathic drugging to the homoeopathic curative methods mentioned in the various cases.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COMPTON-BURNETT»
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10 Best Hollywood Novels
Fans of the witty cult novel A Nest of Ninnies by James Schuyler and John Ashbery and of Ivy Compton-Burnett and Ronald Firbank will dig ... «Publishers Weekly, Jun 15»
Aspire to the Order of Merit? Well, it helps to be a man
... Nancy Mitford, Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Bowen, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Rosamond Lehmann, Frances Partridge, Elizabeth Taylor, Muriel Spark, ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
Looking at your mobile? You're cutting off a world of creativity – and …
Reports of the behaviour of great novelists often stresses their penetrating and rather disconcerting inspection – Ivy Compton-Burnett was said ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
Michael Coveney: Are books taking over the stage, and does it matter?
... dramatist in his own right), even Ivy Compton-Burnett (though she was a gilded stylist, and Julian Mitchell did a couple of good adaptations). «WhatsOnStage.com, Mar 15»
The Brilliance of Sybille Bedford
... independence, as when, without any narrative intervention, they speak in delicious dialogues reminiscent of those by Ivy Compton-Burnett:. «The New York Review of Books, Feb 15»
I was cut out of my mum's will. Did she love me less?
Ivy Compton-Burnett left a will as mannered and oblique as any of her novels, bequeathing a mirror to the 12 writers who made up her literary ... «The Australian, Jan 15»
Philip Hensher: 'Don't aspire to be an author. Just aspire to write a …
The uniform 19-volume set of Ivy Compton-Burnett's novels. I thought I'd treat myself. Where and how do you write? Between 7 and 10 in the ... «Irish Times, Jan 15»
I leave my daughter Daisy out of my estate
The modernist writer Ivy Compton-Burnett left a will as mannered and oblique as any of her novels, bequeathing a mirror to the 12 writers who ... «The Sunday Times, Dec 14»
Snobbery may have claimed some political scalps, but it also …
"Ivy Compton-Burnett we call it" Anthony Powell once corrected my attempt on that distinguished lady novelist's moniker, which was not an ... «The Independent, Nov 14»
Today in History: The Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank …
“There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.” — Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, English author ... «Gaston Gazette, Oct 14»
