The Best of Saki: H.H. Munro - Brossura

Saki

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ISBN 10: 0330247328 ISBN 13: 9780330247320

Casa editrice: Pan Books Ltd, 1980

Riassunto

No writer has combined laughter with savagery more devastatingly than Saki. Though he died nearly ninety years ago, the blackness of his comedy is contemporary and his wit has lost none of its freshness and sparkle. At Edwardian tea tables, his elegant characters defend themselves against a malignant Nature waiting to kill and maim. As Tom Sharpe says, 'Step out through the French windows and you are in the realms of Pan ...' This selection of the best of Saki's stories gives a new generation the opportunity to be dazzlingly entertained -- and to discover a rare and original contribution to English literature. 'Start a Saki story and you will finish it. Finish one and you will start another, and having finished them all you will never forget them. They remain an addiction because they are much more than funny' Tom Sharpe

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‘They dazzle and delight’ Graham Greene

L'autore:

Saki (1870 - 1916) was the pen name of British author Hector Hugh Monro. Saki was born in Burma and brought up in England after his mother's death in 1872. He worked as a foreign correspondant in the Balkans, Warsaw, Russia, and France, writing for The Morning Post before settling in London. There, he wrote short stories, plays, a historical study, and novels. He was killed during combat in War World I.

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• Editore: Pan Books Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0330247328
• ISBN 13: 9780330247320
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256