The Unbearable Bassington de Saki

The Unbearable Bassington

Saki

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 dec 2009

Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916) used the pseudonym Saki. His macabre stories were known for their satire of Edwardian society. Comus Bassington is a cynical upper class young man. His mother keeps trying to arrange things for Comus; a job as a secretary or an advantageous marriage, but Comus spoils her plans by his selfish ways or by being unwilling to be guided by someone wiser.

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Preț

40^.87 lei 3-5 săpt.

40^.87 lei 3-5 săpt.

46^.66 lei 3-5 săpt.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform –

65^.31 lei 3-5 săpt.

CREATESPACE –

83^.29 lei 3-5 săpt.

CREATESPACE –

101^.45 lei 3-5 săpt.

Echo Library – 31 mai 2006

74^.21 lei 38-44 zile

Book Jungle – 30 dec 2009

107^.99 lei 6-8 săpt.

Echo Library – 31 mai 2006

136^.68 lei 38-44 zile

TREDITION CLASSICS – 31 oct 2012

178^.76 lei 6-8 săpt.

Hardback (1)

251^.42 lei 6-8 săpt.

TREDITION CLASSICS – 30 noi 2012

251^.42 lei 6-8 săpt.

Notă biografică

Hector Hugh Munro (1870 - 1916), better known by the pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse. Besides his short stories (which were first published in newspapers, as was customary at the time and then collected into several volumes), he wrote a full-length play, The Watched Pot, in collaboration with Charles Maude; two one-act plays; a historical study, The Rise of the Russian Empire, the only book published under his own name; a short novel, The Unbearable Bassington; the episodic The Westminster Alice (a parliamentary parody of Alice in Wonderland); and When William Came, subtitled A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns, a fantasy about a future German invasion and occupation of Britain.