The Unrest Cure And Other Beastly Tales
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The Unrest Cure And Other Beastly Tales
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Author : Saki
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
The Unrest Cure And Other Beastly Tales written by Saki and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Humorous stories, English categories.
Take a decent helping of P.G. Wodehouse, a soupçon of Wilde's epigrammatic wit, then season with the bloodthirsty malevolence of Edward Lear and Roald Dahl, and you will have an approximation of the inimitable genius of Hector Hugo Munro (alias Saki), the most hilarious and savage exponent of the short story in the English language. His flawlessly-etched cautionary tales, which invariably involve wild animals, tell of country parties where upper-class twits and bores meet with fittingly macabre accidents, where the children are always beastly, and where his urbane and naughty young heroes get the better of their peers using barbed sarcasm and elaborate hoaxes. Saki exposes his upper-crust guests to the menace of Nature—always perched, just out of sight, waiting to claim its next victim.
Understanding Will Self
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Author : M. Hunter Hayes
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2007
Understanding Will Self written by M. Hunter Hayes and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Literary Criticism categories.
Understanding Will Self introduces readers to the satire and expressive ingenuity of a British writer who has garnered an array of awards since the 1991 publication of his first short story collection, The Quantity Theory of Sanity. In this guide to the well-received but largely unstudied writer, M. Hunter Hayes examines the key themes, narrative strategies, and cultural commentaries that characterize Self's work. Through close textual analyses, Hayes guides readers through the alternative universe of Self's writing and maps the interplay between his forays into journalism and fiction. Marked by their combination of seemingly improbable events and quotidian details, Self's novels, novellas, and short stories examine contemporary English life through a mode of writing that he has aptly termed dirty magical realism. Hayes shows how recurring characters have evolved through successive works and in relation with their environments.
The Unbearable Saki
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Author : Sandie Byrne
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2007-11-15
The Unbearable Saki written by Sandie Byrne and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Saki is the acknowledged master of the short story. His writing is elegant, economical, and witty, its tone worldly, flippant irreverence delivered in astringent exchanges and epigrams more neat, pointed, and poised even than Wilde's. The deadpan narrative voice allows for the unsentimental recitation of horrors and the comically grotesque, and the generation of guilty laughter at some very un-pc statements. Saki's short stories have been much reprinted as well as adapted for radio, stage, and television, but his novels, The Unbearable Bassington and When William Came, are almost unknown, his journalism and travel writing forgotten, and his plays rarely performed. Sandie Byrne argues that his reputation has been unfairly overshadowed by his predecessor Oscar Wilde, contemporary George Bernard Shaw, and successors P.G. Wodehouse and Evelyn Waugh. In a well-meaning introduction to the Penguin Complete Saki, Noël Coward reinforced the received image of Saki's work as celebrating an Edwardian or even Victorian milieu of privilege, luxury, and affectation; comedies of manners and light satire. Byrne shows that Saki's writing was no nostalgic evocation of a lost golden age, and that he was rarely concerned with the charm and delight Coward describes. His preoccupations were with England, the values of Empire, and the dangerous beauty of the feral ephebe. The threat to the first two of these triggered his alleged metamorphosis from cosmopolitan cynic and dandy-about-town to patriotic, even jingoistic, NCO, in a manner worthy of his blackest humour.
Jewish Culture And History
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Jewish Culture And History written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Jewish way of life categories.
Contemporary Authors
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Author : Scot Peacock
language : en
Publisher: Contemporary Authors New Revis
Release Date : 2002-02
Contemporary Authors written by Scot Peacock and has been published by Contemporary Authors New Revis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In response to the escalating need for up-to-date information on writers, Contemporary Authors® New Revision Series brings researchers the most recent data on the world's most-popular authors. These exciting and unique author profiles are essential to your holdings because sketches are entirely revised and up-to-date, and completely replace the original Contemporary Authors® entries. For your convenience, a soft-cover cumulative index is sent biannually.While Gale strives to replicate print content, some content may not be available due to rights restrictions.Call your Sales Rep for details.
Authors Artists For Young Adults
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Author : Dwayne D. Hayes
language : en
Publisher: Authors & Artists for Young Ad
Release Date : 2004-06
Authors Artists For Young Adults written by Dwayne D. Hayes and has been published by Authors & Artists for Young Ad this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
With Authors & Artists for Young Adults teens have a source where they can discover fascinating and entertaining facts about the writers, artists, film directors, graphic novelists, and other creative personalities that most interest them. International in scope, each volume contains 20-25 entries offering personal behind-the-scenes information, portraits, movie stills, bibliographies, a cumulative index and more. For table of contents or other volume specific information see the entry for the volume.
The World Of Simon Raven
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Author : Simon Raven
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
The World Of Simon Raven written by Simon Raven and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Although he gained fame with his classic novel series, Alms for Oblivion, which chronicled the misdeeds of English society in the 1950s and 60s, Simon Raven is also recognized as a brilliant travel writer, an unblinking reporter of the seamier side of English upper-class life, and a hilarious commentator on the sexual mores of gay London. His demise in 2001 robbed English letters of one of its most colorful characters. Expelled from Charterhouse “for the usual thing,” he was, for a time, an officer in the British Army. He gambled heavily on the horses for years, was often in debt, drank too much, and had a rich and uncommonly varied sex life. He was said to possess “the mind of a cad and the pen of an angel,” and this selection of his writing contains a magnificent array of pieces on army life, sex, school days, and travel. The quality of his writing and his fearless descriptions of the habits of the English, and indeed of all mankind, will come as a revelation.
The British National Bibliography
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Author : Arthur James Wells
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Bibliography, National categories.
Journal Of The Short Story In English
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Journal Of The Short Story In English written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Short stories, American categories.
Book Review Index
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Book Review Index written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Books categories.
Vols. 8-10 of the 1965-1984 master cumulation constitute a title index.