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Bezig met laden... The Short Stories of Saki (Modern Library) (origineel 1930; editie 1958)door H. H. Munro, Saki, Christopher Morley (Introductie)
Informatie over het werkThe Short Stories of Saki (H. H. Munro) (Later prt.) door Saki (1930)
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BevatThe Toys of Peace door Saki Laura [short story] door Saki (indirect) The Open Window [short story] door Saki (indirect) The Schartz-Metterklume Method {short story} door Saki (indirect) A Holiday Task {short story} door Saki (indirect) The Name-Day {short story} door Saki (indirect) The Lumber-Room {short story} door Saki (indirect) The She-Wolf [short story] door Saki (indirect) The Boar-Pig door Saki (indirect) The Brogue {short story} door Saki (indirect) The Hen {short story} door Saki (indirect) The Cobweb {short story} door Saki (indirect) The lull {short story} door Saki (indirect) The Romancers {short story} door Saki (indirect) The Seventh Pullet {short story} door Saki (indirect) Cousin Teresa {short story} door Saki (indirect) The Stake {short story} door Saki (indirect) The Stalled Ox {short story} door Saki (indirect) The Story-Teller door Saki (indirect) Fur {short story} door Saki (indirect) The Music on the Hill {short story} door Saki (indirect) Tobermory {short story} door Saki (indirect) Mrs. Packletide's Tiger {short story} door Saki (indirect) Sredni Vashtar [short story] door Saki (indirect) The Easter Egg [short story] door Saki (indirect) Filboid Studge: The Story of a Mouse That Helped [short fiction] door Saki (indirect) Esmé {short story} door Saki (indirect) The Unrest-Cure {short story} door Saki (indirect) The Jesting of Arlington Stringham {short story} door Saki (indirect) Adrian {short story} door Saki (indirect) The Chaplet {short story} door Saki (indirect) The Quest {short story} door Saki (indirect) The Story of St. Vespaluus {short story} door Saki (indirect) The Way to the Dairy {short story} door Saki (indirect) The Peace of Mowsle Barton {short story} door Saki (indirect) The Hounds of Fate {short story} door Saki (indirect) The Recessional {short story} door Saki (indirect) The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope [short story] door Saki (indirect) The Remoulding of Groby Lington {short story} door Saki (indirect) The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh {short story} door Saki (indirect) The Wolves of Cernograz [short story] door Saki (indirect) The Guests {short story} door Saki (indirect) The Penance {short story} door Saki (indirect) The Interlopers [short story] door Saki (indirect) The Mappined Life {short story} door Saki (indirect) The Seven Cream Jugs [short story] door Saki (indirect) The Toys of Peace [short story] door Saki (indirect) Louise {short story} door Saki (indirect) Tea {short story} door Saki (indirect) Fate {short story} door Saki (indirect) The Bull {short story} door Saki (indirect) The Gala Programme [short story] door Saki (indirect) Gabriel-Ernest {short story} door Saki (indirect) The Bag [short story] door Saki (indirect) The Reticence of Lady Anne [short fiction] door Saki (indirect)
The buttoned-up world of the British upper classes is exploded by the brilliance, wit and audacity of Saki's bomb-like stories. In 'The Open Window' an imaginative teenager gives a visitor the fright of his life. In 'The Unrest Cure' the ordered home of a respectable country gent is rocked to its core. And 'Laura' expresses the hope of revenge via reincarnation. For punchlines, twists, satire and pure mirth, Saki's stories are second-to-none. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Een typisch voorbeeld uit het verhaal “Reginald’s Christmass Revel”: Reginald, de twenty-something hoofdpersoon gaat tijdens de kerstdagen logeren bij familie en verveelt zich stierlijk. Wanneer de anderen op kerstavond halma beginnen te spelen, wordt het hem teveel.
"As a crowning dissipation, they all sat down to play progressive halma, with milk-chocolate for prizes. I've been carefully brought up, and I don't like to play games of skill for milk-chocolate, so I invented a headache and retired from the scene. I had been preceded a few minutes earlier by Miss Langshan-Smith, a rather formidable lady, who always got up at some uncomfortable hour in the morning, and gave you the impression that she had been in communication with most of the European Governments before breakfast. There was a paper pinned on her door with a signed request that she might be called particularly early on the morrow. Such an opportunity does not come twice in a lifetime. I covered up everything except the signature with another notice, to the effect that before these words should meet the eye she would have ended a misspent life, was sorry for the trouble she was giving, and would like a military funeral. A few minutes later I violently exploded an air- filled paper bag on the landing, and gave a stage moan that could have been heard in the cellars. Then I pursued my original intention and went to bed. The noise those people made in forcing open the good lady's door was positively indecorous; she resisted gallantly, but I believe they searched her for bullets for about a quarter of an hour, as if she had been an historic battlefield.
I hate travelling on Boxing Day, but one must occasionally do things that one dislikes."
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