# Manservant and Maidservant

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- Book: [Manservant and Maidservant](https://www.bookquiver.com/ivy-compton-burnett/manservant-and-maidservant) ([Manservant and Maidservant.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ivy-compton-burnett/manservant-and-maidservant.md))
- Authors: [Ivy Compton-Burnett](https://www.bookquiver.com/ivy-compton-burnett), [Diane Johnson](https://www.bookquiver.com/diane-johnson)
- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-09-4032-263-9
- Pages: 328
- Published: 2001-02-28
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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. But it is when...