The Works of Saki (Hector Hugh Munro): The Unbearable Bassington, When William Came, The Chronicles of Clovis, Beasts and Super-Beasts (4 Books With Active Table of Contents) (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

This collection of the works of Saki, Hector Hugh Munro, 1870-1916, contains the following books: Novels:The Unbearable Bassington, When William Came Short Stories and Short Story Collections:The Chronicles of Clovis, Beasts and Super-Beasts ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Hector Hugh Munro, 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, Noël 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.