The Mighty & Their Fall
1961
The sharp new insights of The Mighty and Their Fall are wrought from classic Compton-Burnett material.
The large county family of fading prospects, the egotistical widower, the new stepmother, the despised governess, the hidden will, the clandestine attempt to prevent a marriage, the return of the prodigal - and the perfect artistry that holds the reader entranced as the secret, astonishing, authentic wellsprings of our behaviour are suddenly revealed.
CRITICAL ACCLAIM
"Her literary abilities have been abundantly acknowledged by the majority of her contemporaries. Her intense individuality has removed her from the possiblity of rivalry.... To Miss Compton-Burnett the family conflict is intimate, unrelenting, very often indecisive and fought out mainly in conversation.... The passions which bring distress to her country houses have recently devastated continents."
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Edwin Muir, The Observer
