The Complete Short Stories - Couverture souple

Saki

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0141184493 ISBN 13 : 9780141184494

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2000

Synopsis

The Complete Short Stories Includes stories that are humorous, satiric, supernatural, and macabre, highly individual, and full of eccentric unconventional situations. Full description

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"One of the funniest writers in the English language... Saki was incapable of writing a dull sentence, but the final lines of his short stories are works of art in themselves" (Daily Telegraph)

"Read Saki, shiver, then smile. In his mixture of the exotic with the wholly English, of brazen charm with unapologetic spite, he stands alone" (Independent)

"Saki writes like an enemy. Society has bored him to the point of murder. Our laughter is only a note or two short of a scream of fear" (V. S. Pritchett)

"Saki's stories are highly relevant to any society in which convention is confused with morality, and all societies confuse convention with morality, so he'll always be relevant" (Will Self)

"Saki remains, from a distance of a hundred years, just about the sharpest, cruellest, funniest and most elegant short story writer in our language... Saki is like a perfect martini but with absinthe stirred in...heady, delicious and dangerous. Enjoy" (Stephen Fry)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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 continued to grow long after his death. The stories are humorous, satiric, supernatural, and macabre, highly individual, full of eccentric wit and unconventional situations. With his great gift as a social satirist of his contemporaryupper-class Edwardian world, Saki is one of the few undisputed English masters of the short story.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0141184493
• ISBN 13: 9780141184494
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 576