The Servant
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Power corrupts, but servility corrupts absolutely — a truth at the sinister heart of Robin Maugham's chilling novella, The Servant. Set in post-war London, the story chronicles the psychological unravelling of Tony, a young, wealthy aristocrat whose comfortable existence is upended by the arrival of Hugo Barrett, his quietly menacing manservant. What begins as a conventional relationship between master and servant gradually, insidiously inverts, as Barrett's calculating intelligence and shrewd manipulation steadily dismantle Tony's will, identity, and self-possession. Maugham writes with a scalpel's precision, dissecting the British class system and the latent anxieties of a society in transition, where the old hierarchies of privilege are being quietly subverted from within. The novella is a masterwork of psychological tension, its spare, almost clinical prose amplifying the dread that builds beneath every seemingly innocuous exchange. First published in 1948 and later immortalised in Joseph Losey's landmark 1963 film adaptation, The Servant endures as a razor-sharp study of dependency, dominance, and the terrifying ease with which a man can lose himself to another's will — leaving the reader to wonder: who is truly in control?
Author: Robin Maugham
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Power corrupts, but servility corrupts absolutely — a truth at the sinister heart of Robin Maugham's chilling novella, The Servant. Set in post-war London, the story chronicles the psychological unravelling of Tony, a young, wealthy aristocrat whose comfortable existence is upended by the arrival of Hugo Barrett, his quietly menacing manservant. What begins as a conventional relationship between master and servant gradually, insidiously inverts, as Barrett's calculating intelligence and shrewd manipulation steadily dismantle Tony's will, identity, and self-possession. Maugham writes with a scalpel's precision, dissecting the British class system and the latent anxieties of a society in transition, where the old hierarchies of privilege are being quietly subverted from within. The novella is a masterwork of psychological tension, its spare, almost clinical prose amplifying the dread that builds beneath every seemingly innocuous exchange. First published in 1948 and later immortalised in Joseph Losey's landmark 1963 film adaptation, The Servant endures as a razor-sharp study of dependency, dominance, and the terrifying ease with which a man can lose himself to another's will — leaving the reader to wonder: who is truly in control?