Pastors and Masters

About this film

LibriVox recording of Pastors and Masters by Ivy Compton-Burnett. Read in English by rickwhitaker. Pastors and Masters (1925) is the first of Ivy Compton-Burnett's 19 published novels. A critic for The New Statesman wrote: "It is astonishing, amazing. It is like nothing else in the world. It is a work of genius." In it, Compton-Burnett introduces her famously acerbic style using only clipped, sharp dialogue. One isn't sure whether it is comic, tragic, or camp (as Susan Sontag averred). It is largely a character study, dealing with themes of literary ambition, intellectual property and plagiarism, tyranny, female subservience, and unconventional sexuality within the setting of an English boys’ preparatory school. - Summary by Rick Whitaker For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit librivox.org . M4B Audiobook (70MB)

Directors & creators

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;british manners; schoolmasters; camp classic

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