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

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, fl...

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Main Author: Byrne, Sandie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 314 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-300) and index.
ISBN:9780191527579
0191527572

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