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  • When William Came
    Hector Hugh Munro / Saki
    After the death of Edward VII, the feeling of impending conflict was increasing in Britain, and indeed all around Europe. The atmosphere of growing martial expectation made for escalating tension.Inevitably Saki wondered. What would happen if Britain were attacked and overcome? How might such a thing occur? Who would be the likely invader? Really how ready was Britain for comba...
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    13,90 €

  • The Collected short Stories of Saki
    Hector Hugh Munro
    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 individu...
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    43,09 €

  • The Collected short Stories of Saki
    Hector Hugh Munro
    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 individua...
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    43,10 €

  • The Collected short Stories of Saki
    Hector Hugh Munro
    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 individua...
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    40,79 €

  • The Unbearable Bassington
    Hector Hugh Munro / Saki
    With his career at its zenith, known universally for his three volumes of magnificently witty stories, Saki in 1912 was ready to branch out. He decided to apply his genius to a single long narrative in a novel.The Unbearable Bassington sports his famous raillery at its highest pitch:“…she came of a family whose individual members went through life, from the nursery to the grave...
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    13,88 €

  • The Westminster Alice
    Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)
    Saki was the pen-name of Hector Hugh Munro, an author and playwright best known for his subtle and witty short stories. He wrote these Wonderland-inspired vignettes for the 'Westminster Gazette', and in 1902 these were collected and published together as 'The Westminster Alice'. Saki's stories use Lewis Carroll's Wonderland to criticize and parody early twentieth-centur...
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    14,51 €

  • Reginald in Russia
    Hector Hugh Munro / Saki
    Saki made his name at the beginning of the Edwardian period with bitingly witty stories and political sketches, inheriting in many ways Oscar Wilde’s vacated crown. His early main character, Reginald, was very like himself - a dissector of flabby respectability with a hilariously savage tongue. The first collected volume of Reginald stories was published in 1904.As the period d...
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    10,88 €

  • Gabriel-Ernest
    Hector Hugh Munro / Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)
    This early work by H. H. Munro was originally published in 1910 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ’Gabriel-Ernest’ is a short story about a were-wolf named Gabriel and his terrible deed. Hector Hugh Munro was born in Akyab, Burma in 1870. He was raised by aunts in North Devon, England, before returning to Burma in his early twenties to join...
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    17,89 €

  • Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches
    Hector Hugh Munro / Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)
    This early work by H. H. Munro was originally published in 1904 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ’Reginald’ is a collection of short stories, including ’Reginald’s Drama’, ’Reginald on Tariff’s’, ’Reginald on Worries’, and many more. Hector Hugh Munro was born in Akyab, Burma in 1870. He was raised by aunts in North Devon, England, before ...
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    19,18 €

  • The Unbearable Bassington
    Hector Hugh Munro / Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)
    This early work by H. H. Munro was originally published in 1912 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ’The Unbearable Bassington’ is a novel detailing the story of Comus Bassington, the only son of Francesca Bassington, and his attempt to marry a wealthy woman so as to save his mother from losing her house. Hector Hugh Munro was born in Akyab, ...
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    31,44 €

  • A Collection of Short Stories from the Bystander & Morning Post - Including ’A Shot in the Dark’, ’The Holy War’, ’The Pond’, and Many More
    Hector Hugh Munro / Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)
    These works by H. H. Munro were originally published in the early 20th century and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ’A Collection of Short Stories from the Bystander & Morning Post’ is a collection of short stories, including ’A Shot in the Dark’, ’The Holy War’, ’The Pond’, and many more. Hector Hugh Munro was born in Akyab, Burma in 1870. He...
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    23,21 €

  • Reginald
    Hector Hugh Munro / Saki
    The death of Oscar Wilde in 1900 left the position of The Wittiest Man in the World open and up for grabs. There seemed no clear inheritor. Then, over the next couple of years, in the pages of the Westminster Gazette, there slowly emerged someone whose political satires and sketches of society brought the Wildean barb screaming into the new century. He was a man by the name of ...
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    9,76 €

  • The Westminster Alice
    'Saki' / (Saki) / Hector Hugh Munro
    This early work by H. H. Munro was originally published in 1912 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ’The Westminster Alice’ is a collection of satirical sketches, including ’Alice in Lambeth’, ’Alice in Pall Mall’, ’Alice in a Fog’, and many more. Hector Hugh Munro was born in Akyab, Burma in 1870. He was raised by aunts in North Devon, Engla...
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    22,16 €