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As another term begins at her girls' school, Josephine Napier
reasserts her iron grip over her teachers and family. Her air of
studied self-sacrifice conceals ruthless manipulation, but with the
introduction of a male teacher to her staff and the return of an
old rival for her husband's affections, the mask begins to slip.
Old deceptions and new rivalries come to the surface, and the
starched perfection of her life is threatened. A consummate
expression of Ivy Compton-Burnett's unique style, full of viciously
witty dialogue laced with double meanings and veiled insults, More
Women Than Men is a masterful dissection of gender and power by an
essential twentieth-century writer.
""The sight of duty does make one shiver," said Miss Herrick. "The
actual doing of it would kill one, I think."" Ever anxious to keep
up appearances, self-avowed intellectual and scholar Nicholas
Herrick knows that to involve himself in the running of his own
school would be a condescension too far. Assembling around himself
a cast of fittingly fawning friends and aides, he sets about
unveiling his final masterpiece. Described in contemporary reviews
as "a work of genius," "Pastors and Masters "inaugurated the
writing career of an author gifted with a rare skill for
characterization and for wry portrayals of domestic scenes.
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