Name: Pastors and Masters
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Author: Ivy Compton-Burnett
ISBN: 9781948316187

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Publisher

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Author

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

128

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781948316187

Synopsis "Pastors and Masters "

Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884–1969) was a reclusive novelist who in the 1950s became known in literary circles as "the English Secret," and was considered austere and unassuming by all who had the rare fortune to meet her. Publicly, she was so modest that any praise of her books, made in her presence, pained her. But hidden under simple appearances lay a literary iconoclast with a biting, acerbic wit who developed a wholly distinct and highly individualistic dialogue-heavy style that would span 19 novels. A style first introduced here, in her second novel, Pastors and Masters. A short work that is largely a satiric depiction of Victorian institutions, and a character study of masculine authority and female subservience within the setting of a boys preparatory school after World War I. The crux of the loose narrative being one's success as defined by way of novel authorship. So unique is the style borne here that it has been described as "a work of genius. It is like nothing else in the world."

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