Download or read book Manservant and Maidservant written by Ivy Compton-Burnett and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2001-02-28 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Horace undergoes an altogether unforeseeable change of heart that the real difficulties begin. Is the repentant master a victim along with the former slave? And how can anyone endure the memory of the wrongs that have been done?"