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Tobermory and Other Stories Saki

Tobermory and Other Stories par Saki

Tobermory and Other Stories Saki


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Résumé

Tobermory' - the title story of this collection - is widely considered one of Saki's finest pieces. Here presented with extra material about the author's life and works, notes and bibliographic information

Tobermory and Other Stories Résumé

Tobermory and Other Stories: Annotated Edition - Contains 29 stories Saki

'Tobermory' - the title story of this collection - is widely considered one of Saki's finest pieces, in which a short-sighted dinner-party guest introduces a talking cat to the diners, inadvertently revealing gossip and pushing fickle characters into the limelight - in the process undermining the common perceptions of grandiose and genteel high society. From some of his earliest successes, such as 'Gabriel-Ernest', 'The Bag' and the Clovis stories, about a young man with an impish sense of humour, to later tales such as 'The Boar-Pig', which is as bizarre as it is hilarious, and 'The Toys of Peace', which he was never able to see in print, this selection contains a wealth of well-known tales with vastly different themes - from reincarnation to psychological warfare - and bearing every trademark token of wit with which Saki has enthralled generations of eager readers.

Tobermory and Other Stories Avis

If only Saki... were still alive. The age of Trump needs his brutal dismantling of human stupidities. -- Stephen Moss * The Guardian *
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 so much more than funny. -- Tom Sharpe
A master in his genre. -- Naomi Lewis * The Observer *

À propos de Saki

Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916) was a British author best known by his pen name Saki. Although he wrote two novels and several political sketches - most notably The Westminster Alice, a parody authorized by Carroll's publishers - it is his large output of satirical short stories for which he is remembered, and is still considered one of the masters of the genre.

Sommaire

`The Open Window', `The Boar-Pig', `The Chaplet', `The Lumber Room', `The Schartz-Metterklume Method', `Gabriel-Ernest', `Sredni Vashtar', `The Storyteller', `The She-Wolf', `The Blood-Feud of Toad-Water', `The Bag', `The Mouse', `Esme', `Tobermory', `Mrs Packletide's Tiger', `Hermann the Irascible', `The Unrest Cure', `The Jesting of Arlington Stringham', `Filboid Studge', `The Hounds of Fate', `Laura', `The Philanthropist and the Happy Cat', `The Toys of Peace', `Tea', `A Bread-and-Butter Miss', `Bertie's Christmas Eve', `Forewarned', `The Interlopers', `The Bull'.

Informations supplémentaires

GOR012461292
9781847497307
1847497306
Tobermory and Other Stories: Annotated Edition - Contains 29 stories Saki
Occasion - Très bon état
Broché
Alma Books Ltd
20180920
256
N/A
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