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by: Hugh Munroe Munro
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781853260711
ISBN: 1853260711
Label: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Manufacturer: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Number Of Pages: 512
Publication Date: December 05, 1999
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Sales Rank: 127815
Studio: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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'All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other peoples' Saki (H.H. Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekhov and O Henry as a master of the short story. His extraordinary stories are a mixture of humorous satire, irony and the macabre, in which the stupidities and hypocrisy of conventional society are viciously pilloried. This collection includes Sredni Vastor and The Unrest Cure. 'We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other married couples they sometimes live apart'
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Rating:  - Hopelessly modern wit, hopelessly feudal outlooks
What else can be said about Saki? A man caught between the death of the old way and the birthpangs of modernity - in both politics and literature - has much to satire. Saki's humor is near-pathological, glorifying the absurd and savaging the serious. Any (and all) collections of his too-brief work are to be appreciated, cherished, and most importantly, shared. If one can read "The Unrest-Cure" and not laugh out loud I fear for the future of humanity!
Rating:  - Classics and Understanding
H.H. Munro takes us on a journey unmatched by his predecessors, and brings us back to our reality with an understanding of a true artist.
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