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Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read. This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter. - Reading time of the complete text: about 6 hours - Reading time of the summarized text: 25 minutes "Beasts and Super-Beasts" is a...
Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.With his signature flair and razor-sharp wit, Saki is an undisputed master of the short...
This ebook contains Saki's complete works. This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on...
Saki's (a.k.a Hector Hugh Munro) unique brand of humor has resonated with readers for over a century. Both macabre and also at times vicious, his writing nonetheless manages to perfectly capture the trivial absurdities of the Edwardian era in England. His subjects are...
'Three weeks later the world was advised of the coming of a new breakfast food, heralded under the resounding name of 'Filboid Studge''H.H. Munro, better known by his pen name, Saki, wrote wickedly comic satires of upper-class Edwardian life. These seven short stories...
Saki is perhaps the most graceful spokesman for England's 'Golden Afternoon' - the slow and peaceful years before the First World War. Although, like so many of his generation, he died tragically young, in action on the Western Front, his reputation as a writer...
LEONARD BILSITER was one of those people who have failed to find this world attractive or interesting, and who have sought compensation in an unseen world of their own experience or imagination - or invention. Children do that sort of thing successfully, but children...
There are good things which we want to share with the world and good things which we want to keep to ourselves. The secret of our favourite restaurant, to take a case, is guarded jealously from all but a few intimates; the secret, to take a contrary case, of our...
Harvey, said Eleanor Bope, handing her brother a cutting from a London morning paper of the 19th of March, just read this about children's toys, please; it exactly carries out some of our ideas about influence and upbringing.
Les nouvelles de Saki révèlent les manières et les attitudes de la société édouardienne, dépeintes de l'intérieur par un chroniqueur de génie, doté d'un regard distant et sardonique. Chacun de ses textes est un pur joyau d'écriture, poli et affûté comme une épigramme....
On a écrit que, pour mieux savourer l'humour désopilant des nouvelles de Saki, il faut commencer par lire son roman L'Insupportable Bassington.C'est, nous prévient l'auteur, une histoire qui n'a pas de morale ; celle d'une femme, Francesca Bassington, qui, si on la...
" Ses meilleures histoires sont toujours plus belles que les chefs-d'oeuvre de n'importe quel autre écrivain." Roald Dahl. Les héros de H. H. Munro, alias Saki, possèdent tous cet humour glacé qui semble être un don purement anglo-saxon ; ils vont dans la vie avec un...
" Ce qui tient le lecteur rivé à cette écriture au vitriol, c'est l'audace des personnages de ces nouvelles. Saki nous fait en effet traverser des jungles mondaines et cocasses grâce à de merveilleux guides." Gilles Barbedette, Le Monde Reginald, le cruel dandy héros de...
Innovation numérique pédagogique : adaptation de la série BILINGUE de Pocket-Langues Pour Tous ! Cinq nouvelles d'auteurs britanniques incontournables. La série BILINGUE de 12-21 propose : • une traduction fidèle et intégrale, accompagnée de nombreuses notes • une...
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