The unbearable Saki : the work of H.H. Munro / Sandie Byrne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Byrne, Sandie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Saki, 1870-1916--Criticism and interpretation.

Saki.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A revaluation of the work of the popular Edwardian short story writer, novelist, journalist, blackest of black humorists, and master of the sting in the tale, Saki (H.H. Munro). - ;Saki is the acknowledged master of the short story. His writing is elegant, economical, and witty, its tone worldly, flippant irreverence delivered in astringent exchanges and epigrams more neat, pointed, and poised even than Wilde's. The deadpan narrative voice allows for the unsentimental recitation of horrors and the comically grotesque, and the generation of guilty laughter at some very un-pc statements. Saki's

Contents:

CONTENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; NOTE ON EDITIONS; INTRODUCTION: THREE DEATHS; 1 EARLY LIFE AND INFLUENCES; 2 SCHOOL AND THE EUROPEAN TOUR; 3 BURMA, DEVON; 4 LONDON, THE BALKANS, RUSSIA; 5 LONDON AGAIN; 6 THE STORIES: THE YOUNG MEN; 7 THE STORIES: THE MEN THAT WOLVES HAVE SNIFFED AT, THE WILD, AND THE BOYS; 8 THE UNBEARABLE BASSINGTON; 9 WHEN WILLIAM CAME; 10 WILLIAM AND LANCE-SERGENT MUNRO; ENDNOTES; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-300) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-281-14991-8

9786611149918

0-19-152757-2

1-4356-2184-0

OCLC:

437096414