Unrest-Cure-Other Beastly Tales
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Book Description
The long list of devotees of the barbed and timeless wit of Saki (H.H. Munro) included A.A. Milne, Evelyn Waugh, Noël Coward, and Graham Greene. The Un-Rest Cure now collects the best of Saki¹s devilishly funny tales.
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Take a decent helping of P.G. Wodehouse ‹ aunts, country manors ‹ a soupçon of Wilde¹s epigrammatic wit, then season with the bloodthirsty malevolence of Edward Lear and Roald Dahl, and you will have an approximation of the inimitable genius of Hector Hugo Munro (alias Saki), the most hilarious and savage exponent of the short story in the English language. His flawlessly-etched cautionary tales, which invariably involve wild animals, tell of country parties where upper-class twits and bores meet with fittingly macabre accidents, where the children are always beastly, and where his urbane and naughty young heroes get the better of their peers using barbed sarcasm and elaborate hoaxes. Saki exposes his upper-crust guests to the menace of Nature ‹ always perched, just out of sight, waiting to claim its next victim.
Unrest-Cure-Other Beastly Tales
Unrest-Cure-Other Beastly Tales,Saki,Will Self,Saki/Munro,Prion,185375370X,20th Century English Novel And Short Story,Fiction,Fiction - General,General
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