The Collected Short Stories of Saki
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'All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's'. Saki (H.H. Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekhov and O Henry as a master of the short story. His extraordinary stories are a mixture of humorous satire, irony and the macabre, in which the stupidities and hypocrisy of conventional society are viciously pilloried. This collection includes Sredni Vastor and The Unrest Cure . 'We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other married couples they sometimes live apart'
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1853260711
ISBN13:9781853260711
Release Date:September 1993
Publisher:Wordsworth Editions
Length:512 Pages
Weight:0.72 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 4.9" x 7.7"
Customer Reviews
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Hopelessly modern wit, hopelessly feudal outlooks
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
What else can be said about Saki? A man caught between the death of the old way and the birthpangs of modernity - in both politics and literature - has much to satire. Saki's humor is near-pathological, glorifying the absurd and savaging the serious. Any (and all) collections of his too-brief work are to be appreciated, cherished, and most importantly, shared. If one can read "The Unrest-Cure" and not laugh out loud I fear for the future of humanity!
Classics and Understanding
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
H.H. Munro takes us on a journey unmatched by his predecessors, and brings us back to our reality with an understanding of a true artist.
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