Ivy Compton-Burnett

A Family and a Fortune (1983)

The Last and the First (1971)

The Present and the Past (1986)

I have been wanting to read Ivy Compton-Burnett since reading Virginia Woolf's diaries, in which she wrote that she was kept awake at night by the fact that her own writing was "much inferior to the bitter truth and intense originality of Miss Compton-Burnett."The Present and the Past has a plot ...

Men And Wives (1966)

A God And His Gifts (1963)

The Mighty And Their Fall (1990)