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Young Lady Albert Is Courting Disaster: Volume 1 [Complete]

Sat, 01 Aug 2015 11:16:09 +0300

Young Lady Albert Is Courting Disaster: Volume 2

Wed, 02 Sep 2015 09:31:47 +0300

Reginald

Sat, 24 Jun 2006 12:45:30 +0300

Saki's (a.k.a Hector Hugh Munro) unique brand of humor has resonated with readers for over a century. Both macabre and also at times vicious, his writing nonetheless manages to perfectly capture the trivial absurdities of the Edwardian era in England.His subjects are almost always louche members of the upper classes - in particular his perfectly observed anti-heroes such as Clovis and Reginald - who wouldn't feel out of place in the world of P.G Wodehouse's 'Bertie Wooster'.The fatal flaw of hypocrisy receives particular attention in Saki's world, with vengeful justice often meted out in the most unlikely and unexpected fashion by birds, beasts and children alike.

Young Lady Albert Is Courting Disaster: Volume 8

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 18:50:28 +0200

The Complete Short Stories

Wed, 14 Sep 1977 01:05:06 +0300

Saki is perhaps the most graceful spokesman for England's 'Golden Afternoon' - the slow and peaceful years before the First World War. Although, like so many of his generation, he died tragically young, in action on the Western Front, his reputation as a writer continued to grow long after his death. The stories are humorous, satiric, supernatural, and macabre, highly individual, full of eccentric wit and unconventional situations. With his great gift as a social satirist of his contemporaryupper-class Edwardian world, Saki is one of the few undisputed English masters of the short story.

Beasts and Super-Beasts

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:42:06 +0300

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Beasts and Super-Beasts by Saki Beasts and Super-Beasts is a collection of stories by Saki. The stories are each concerned in some way with a different animal, as the title suggests. Saki's style is simple, cynical and humorous. Along with The Chronicles of Clovis, Beasts and Super-Beasts is one of Saki's best-known works. It was his final collection of stories before his death in World War I, and several of its stories, in particular "The Open Window" and "Sredni Vashtar", are reprinted frequently in anthologies. The majority of the volume's stories deal in one fashion with animals, providing the source for its title. The character of Clovis Sangrail, featured in earlier works by Saki, appears in several stories. Most of the stories appeared previously in periodicals. Stylistically, Beasts and Super-Beasts displays the simple language, cynicism and wry humor that characterize Saki's earlier literary output.

Young Lady Albert Is Courting Disaster: Volume 4

Sun, 26 Feb 2023 09:21:05 +0200

Young Lady Albert Is Courting Disaster: Volume 7

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 18:50:29 +0200

Young Lady Albert Is Courting Disaster: Volume 5

Sat, 16 May 2015 15:51:14 +0300

The Complete Short Stories of Saki

Wed, 14 Sep 1977 11:49:12 +0300

The buttoned-up world of the British upper classes is exploded by the brilliance, wit and audacity of Saki's bomb-like stories. In 'The Open Window' an imaginative teenager gives a visitor the fright of his life. In 'The Unrest Cure' the ordered home of a respectable country gent is rocked to its core. And 'Laura' expresses the hope of revenge via reincarnation. For punchlines, twists, satire and pure mirth, Saki's stories are second-to-none.

Young Lady Albert Is Courting Disaster: Volume 3

Sat, 16 Dec 2023 09:21:02 +0200

Young Lady Albert Is Courting Disaster: Volume 6

Sat, 27 Jul 2024 09:35:22 +0300

Reginald in Russia, and Other Stories

Wed, 27 Nov 1991 18:19:54 +0200