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Ivy Compton-Burnett (Magill’s Choice: Notable British Novelists)

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Ivy Compton-Burnett is known only for her novels.

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Compton-Burnett is a novelist’s novelist, much appreciated by her peers. She has been compared by her partisans to figures as various as Jane Austen, Jean Racine, Henry James, Leo...

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