Tidy copy. Square, clean and tight. Average dust jacket; a bit of scuffing and a small tear on top edge of spine that has been closed with acid free bookbinding tape. This is an early sixties reprint form Heinemann to tie in with Losey's chilling film adaptation.
Robin Maugham's (nephew of Somerset) first, haunting novella.
Set in London just after the Second World War, Robin Maugham's novella is a confessional tale told in a simple, urgent voice by one Richard Merton.
He tells the story of Tony, a close friend from the war, who—breaking links with old friends and habits—steadily comes under the influence of his sinister new butler, Barrett.
Concerned for his friend, Richard slowly uncovers a strange affair in which both class and sexual barriers have disintegrated into a dark flux.
Filmed in 1963 by Joseph Losey, with a screenplay by Harold Pinter, and starring Dirk Bogarde and James Fox, The Servant was one of the key British films of the 1960s.
Tidy copy. Square, clean and tight. Average dust jacket; a bit of scuffing and a small tear on top edge of spine that has been closed with acid free bookbinding tape. This is an early sixties reprint form Heinemann to tie in with Losey's chilling film adaptation.
Robin Maugham's (nephew of Somerset) first, haunting novella.
Set in London just after the Second World War, Robin Maugham's novella is a confessional tale told in a simple, urgent voice by one Richard Merton.
He tells the story of Tony, a close friend from the war, who—breaking links with old friends and habits—steadily comes under the influence of his sinister new butler, Barrett.
Concerned for his friend, Richard slowly uncovers a strange affair in which both class and sexual barriers have disintegrated into a dark flux.
Filmed in 1963 by Joseph Losey, with a screenplay by Harold Pinter, and starring Dirk Bogarde and James Fox, The Servant was one of the key British films of the 1960s.