In the age of the concentration camp, when from 1935 to 194… - Ivy Compton-Burnett

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In the age of the concentration camp, when from 1935 to 1947 or so, she wrote her very best novels, no writer did more to illumine the springs of human cruelty, suffering and bravery.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

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Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett DBE (5 June 1884 – 27 August 1969) was an award-winning English novelist.

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Alternative Names: I. Compton-Burnett • Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett

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Un des plus grands romanciers que l'Angleterre ait jamais eus. ("One of the greatest novelists that England has ever had.")

The most original novelist now writing in English.

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

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