The Unbearable Saki: The Work of H. H. Munro

by Sandie Byrne

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199226059
• ISBN13: 9780199226054
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 8.6"