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Manservant and Maidservant

Manservant and Maidservant

Manservant and Maidservant is a 1947 novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett. It was published in the United States with the title Bullivant and the Lambs.After the novel fell out of print it was republished in 2001 by the New York Review Books.Whenever the author was asked which of her novels were her favorites, she always mentioned Manservant and Maidservant and A House and Its Head.


“Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth," said his cousin. "But we seem to have no other.”

Manservant and Maidservant (London: Victor Gollancz, [1947] 1972) p. 5.

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