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      Two Worlds and Their Ways

      by Ivy Compton-Burnett
      Published
      Nov 2011
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      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      324
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      Sefton and his sister Clemence are dispatched to separate boarding schools. Their father's second marriage, their mother's economies, provide perfect opportunities for mockery, and home becomes a source of shame. More wretched is their mother's insistence that they excel. Their desperate means to please her incite adult opprobrium, but how did the children learn to deceive?



      Here staccato dialogue, brittle aphorisms and an excoriating wit are used to unparalleled and subversive effect ruthlessly to expose the wounds beneath the surface of family life.

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      First Edition Aug 2012 Bloomsbury (UK) ISBN13 9781448206650 ISBN10 1448206650
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      Jan 1990 RH Discont Oper ISBN13 9781853811760 ISBN10 1853811769
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      Apr 1979 Gollancz (UK) ISBN13 9780575026100 ISBN10 0575026103
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      Nov 2011 Bloomsbury ISBN13 9781448206292 ISBN10 1448206294
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