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Author : Saki
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Unbearable Bassington written by Saki and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sandie Byrne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199226059
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book The Unbearable Saki written by Sandie Byrne and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-11-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revaluation of the work of the popular Edwardian short story writer, novelist, journalist, blackest of black humorists, and master of the sting in the tale, Saki (H.H. Munro).
Author : Saki
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8026893980
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (268 download)
Download or read book When William Came written by Saki and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-06-08 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set several years the future, after a war between Germany and Great Britain in which the Germans won, "When William Came" chronicles life in London under German occupation and the changes that come with a foreign army's invasion and triumph. The "William" is actually Kaiser Wilhelm II of the House of Hohenzollern.
Author : Saki
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0857908049
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)
Download or read book Tobermory written by Saki and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteen brilliant stories from the satirical master about talking cats, fearsome ferrets, and absurd humans . . . At a country house party, Cornelius Appin announces that he has discovered a method by which animals can be taught to speak. His latest pupil is none other than Tobermory, the ginger cat belonging to his hosts, Sir Wilfred and Lady Blemley. As the guests express astonishment and incredulity, Sir Wilfred goes off to find Tobermory, who is lounging in the smoking room waiting for his tea. What Appin claims is true, and Tobermory demonstrates his remarkable talents—with unanticipated results. With this and other witty, imaginative, and insightful stories, this collection is a delight that captures the foibles of society in Edwardian England, yet remains entertainingly timeless in its portraits of human (and animal) nature.
Author : Saki
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781492905349
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Tobermory written by Saki and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tobermory is a short story by Saki. Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 - 13 November 1916), better known by the pen name Saki, and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirised Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Nol Coward, and P. G. Wodehouse.Beside his short stories (which were first published in newspapers, as was customary at the time, and then collected into several volumes), he wrote a full-length play, The Watched Pot, in collaboration with Charles Maude; two one-act plays; a historical study, The Rise of the Russian Empire, the only book published under his own name; a short novel, The Unbearable Bassington; the episodic The Westminster Alice (a Parliamentary parody of Alice in Wonderland), and When William Came, subtitled A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns, a fantasy about a future German invasion of Britain.
Author : Saki
Publisher : New York : Viking Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Unbearable Bassington written by Saki and published by New York : Viking Press. This book was released on 1926 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Saki
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book The Chronicles of Clovis written by Saki and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hector Hugh Munro
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473373182
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)
Download or read book The Chronicles of Clovis written by Hector Hugh Munro and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by H. H. Munro was originally published in 1911 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Chronicles of Clovis' is a collection of short stories, including 'The Great Weep', 'Tobermory', 'Adrian', and many more. Hector Hugh Munro was born in Akyab, Burma in 1870. He was raised by aunts in North Devon, England, before returning to Burma in his early twenties to join the Colonial Burmese Military Police. Later, Munro returned once more to England, where he embarked on his career as a journalist, becoming well-known for his satirical ‘Alice in Westminster’ political sketches, which appeared in the Westminster Gazette. Arguably better-remembered by his pen name, ‘Saki’, Munro is now considered a master of the short story, with tales such as ‘The Open Window’ regarded as examples of the form at its finest.
Author : Saki
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486285219
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)
Download or read book Sredni Vashtar and Other Stories written by Saki and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Burma in 1870, Scottish writer H. H. Munro adopted the pseudonym Saki to satirize the social conventions, cruelty, and foolishness of the Edwardian era. His highly readable blend of flippant humor and outrageous inventiveness is often overlaid with a mood of horror. After Munro's untimely death in action during World War I, Christopher Morley wrote: "the empty glass we turn down for him is the fragile, hollow-stemmed goblet meant for the finest champag≠ it is of the driest." Readers can sample Munro's special brand of well-plotted satiric fiction in this inexpensive collection of his best tales. In addition to the title story, selections include "Tobermory," "Laura," "The Open Window," and "The Schartz-Metterklume Method." With its biting wit and vein of cruelty, Munro's work has sometimes been compared to early Evelyn Waugh; admirers of Waugh and other discerning readers are sure to savor this stimulating taste of vintage Saki.
Author : Sandie Byrne
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191527572
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The Unbearable Saki written by Sandie Byrne and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-11-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saki is the acknowledged master of the short story. His writing is elegant, economical, and witty, its tone worldly, flippant irreverence delivered in astringent exchanges and epigrams more neat, pointed, and poised even than Wilde's. The deadpan narrative voice allows for the unsentimental recitation of horrors and the comically grotesque, and the generation of guilty laughter at some very un-pc statements. Saki's short stories have been much reprinted as well as adapted for radio, stage, and television, but his novels, The Unbearable Bassington and When William Came, are almost unknown, his journalism and travel writing forgotten, and his plays rarely performed. Sandie Byrne argues that his reputation has been unfairly overshadowed by his predecessor Oscar Wilde, contemporary George Bernard Shaw, and successors P.G. Wodehouse and Evelyn Waugh. In a well-meaning introduction to the Penguin Complete Saki, Noël Coward reinforced the received image of Saki's work as celebrating an Edwardian or even Victorian milieu of privilege, luxury, and affectation; comedies of manners and light satire. Byrne shows that Saki's writing was no nostalgic evocation of a lost golden age, and that he was rarely concerned with the charm and delight Coward describes. His preoccupations were with England, the values of Empire, and the dangerous beauty of the feral ephebe. The threat to the first two of these triggered his alleged metamorphosis from cosmopolitan cynic and dandy-about-town to patriotic, even jingoistic, NCO, in a manner worthy of his blackest humour.
Author : Saki
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Rise of the Russian Empire written by Saki and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Saki
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781907970009
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Improper Stories written by Saki and published by . This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work features 18 hilarious and disturbing tales by Saki, the Edwardian master of the short story.
Author : Jeffrey Archer
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 1429967323
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Collected Short Stories written by Jeffrey Archer and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2010-06-08 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International bestselling author Jeffrey Archer has enthralled readers with his riveting suspense, surprise denouements, and unforgettable storylines. Now Archer's three acclaimed collections of short fiction are brought together in one irresistible volume. THE COLLECTED SHORT STORIES A Quiver Full of Arrows takes readers on a journey of encounters that befall an assortment of kindly strangers, wary old friends, and long-lost loves. Sly reflections on human nature are at the center of A Twist in the Tale in which blindly adventurous game-players compete for stakes higher than they dreamed. Expect the unexpected and you'll still be surprised in Twelve Red Herrings, a dozen tales of betrayal, love, murder and revenge capped with a startling twist. Thirty-six stories in all, each poised to astonish and inspire, revealing "master entertainer" (Time) Jeffrey Archer at his artfully entertaining best.
Author : Saki
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781973742166
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (421 download)
Download or read book The Unbearable Bassington written by Saki and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-21 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Unbearable Bassington by Saki, 1912.Hector Hugh Munro (1870 - 1916), better known by the pen name Saki, was a British writer whose witty,mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian societyand culture. He is considered a master of the short story, and oftencompared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker.Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling,he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noel Coward and P. G. Wodehouse.
Author : Saki
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781494073725
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (737 download)
Download or read book The Square Egg written by Saki and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1924 edition.
Author : Saki
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Reginald written by Saki and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hector Hugh Munro
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 147337314X
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)
Download or read book Gabriel-Ernest written by Hector Hugh Munro and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by H. H. Munro was originally published in 1910 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Gabriel-Ernest' is a short story about a were-wolf named Gabriel and his terrible deed. Hector Hugh Munro was born in Akyab, Burma in 1870. He was raised by aunts in North Devon, England, before returning to Burma in his early twenties to join the Colonial Burmese Military Police. Later, Munro returned once more to England, where he embarked on his career as a journalist, becoming well-known for his satirical ‘Alice in Westminster’ political sketches, which appeared in the Westminster Gazette. Arguably better-remembered by his pen name, ‘Saki’, Munro is now considered a master of the short story, with tales such as ‘The Open Window’ regarded as examples of the form at its finest.
