{"product_id":"9781448206278","title":"Dolores","description":"The first edition of \u003ci\u003eDolores\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 1911. It sold well, and was promptly forgotten. Now that her career of sixty years is ended, and her long achievement more and more acclaimed, \u003ci\u003eDolores\u003c\/i\u003e, standing at that remote beginning, is curiously reborn.\u003cp\u003eIvy Compton-Burnett , 1884-1969 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCompton-Burnett was encouraged by her liberal and unorthodox father, homeopath Dr Burnett, to prepare to read classics at London university (neither Oxford nor Cambridge gave degrees to women at this time). She had dearly loved her father, who died without warning from a heart attack in 1901 when she was sixteen. Her closest brother died three years later, and Ivy Compton-Burnett went on to lose three more of her younger siblings and her mother by the time she was 35, something she could hardly bear to speak about, but constantly explored in her novels. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCompton-Burnett published twenty novels, the first while she was in her twenties, in 1911. However, the first of her works to use her mature and startlingly original style was published when she was forty, in 1925. Compton-Burnett's fiction deals with domestic situations in large households which, to all intents and purposes, invariably seem Edwardian. She was named a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1967. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe description of human weaknesses and foibles of all sorts pervades her work, and the family that emerges from each of her novels must be seen as dysfunctional in one way or another.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154721226992,"sku":"9781448206278","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781448206278_p0.jpg?v=1763827193","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781448206278","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}