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Chargement... The Short Stories of Saki (1930)par Saki
   501 Must-Read Books (229) Art of Reading (17) » 11 plus Folio Society (355) Books Read in 2024 (1,005) 20th Century Literature (612) Out of Copyright (200) Books Read in 2008 (196) Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  NewLibrary78 | Jul 22, 2023 |   (  ) leslie.98 | Jun 27, 2023 |  ) librisissimo | Feb 16, 2023 | ) Michael_J | Jun 2, 2022 | I was given this book by an English professor at a college in Minnesota where I spent a winter. He and I shared our mutual love of poetry and prose. He gave me an old copy of this book, dedicated to "The one who came to visit and stayed." (  ) Windyone1 | May 10, 2022 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
ContientLaura [short story] par Saki (indirect) The Open Window [short story] par Saki (indirect) The Schartz-Metterklume Method {short story} par Saki (indirect) A Holiday Task {short story} par Saki (indirect) The Name-Day {short story} par Saki (indirect) The Lumber-Room {short story} par Saki (indirect) The She-Wolf [short story] par Saki (indirect) The Boar-Pig {short story} par Saki (indirect) The Brogue {short story} par Saki (indirect) The Hen {short story} par Saki (indirect) The Cobweb {short story} par Saki (indirect) The lull {short story} par Saki (indirect) The Romancers {short story} par Saki (indirect) The Seventh Pullet {short story} par Saki (indirect) Cousin Teresa {short story} par Saki (indirect) The Stake {short story} par Saki (indirect) The Stalled Ox {short story} par Saki (indirect) The Story-Teller par Saki (indirect) Fur {short story} par Saki (indirect) The Music on the Hill {short story} par Saki (indirect) Mrs. Packletide's Tiger {short story} par Saki (indirect) Sredni Vashtar [short story] par Saki (indirect) The Easter Egg [short story] par Saki (indirect) Esmé [short story] par Saki (indirect) The Unrest-Cure {short story} par Saki (indirect) The Jesting of Arlington Stringham {short story} par Saki (indirect) Adrian {short story} par Saki (indirect) The Chaplet {short story} par Saki (indirect) The Quest {short story} par Saki (indirect) The Story of St. Vespaluus {short story} par Saki (indirect) The Way to the Dairy {short story} par Saki (indirect) The Peace of Mowsle Barton {short story} par Saki (indirect) The Hounds of Fate {short story} par Saki (indirect) The Recessional {short story} par Saki (indirect) The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope [short story] par Saki (indirect) The Remoulding of Groby Lington {short story} par Saki (indirect) The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh {short story} par Saki (indirect) The Wolves of Cernograz [short story] par Saki (indirect) The Guests {short story} par Saki (indirect) The Penance {short story} par Saki (indirect) The Interlopers [short story] par Saki (indirect) The Mappined Life {short story} par Saki (indirect) The Seven Cream Jugs [short story] par Saki (indirect) The Toys of Peace [short story] par Saki (indirect) Louise {short story} par Saki (indirect) Tea {short story} par Saki (indirect) Fate {short story} par Saki (indirect) The Bull {short story} par Saki (indirect) The Gala Programme [short story] par Saki (indirect) Gabriel Ernest par Saki (indirect) The Bag [short story] par Saki (indirect) The Reticence of Lady Anne [short fiction] par 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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Even the Hooligan was probably invented in China centuries before we thought of him.
(page 18)
He classified the Princess with that distinct type of woman that looks as if it habitually went out to feed hens in the rain.
(page 35)
If there is any truth in the theory of transmigration, this particular mouse must certainly have been in a former state a member of the Alpine Club.
(page 82)
And be surrounded by Americans trying to talk French? No, thank you. I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.
(page 122)
One cannot discount the unpleasant things of this world merely by looking the other way.
(page 124)
“Who are those depressed-looking young women who have just gone by?” asked the Baroness; “they have the air of people who have bowed to destiny and are not quite sure whether the salute will be returned.”
(page 150)
“The trouble is,” said Clovis to his aunt, “all these days of intrusive remembrance harp so persistently on one aspect of human nature and entirely ignore the other; that is way they become so perfunctory and artificial. At Christmas and New Year you are emboldened and encourage by convention to send gushing messages of optimistic goodwill and servile affection to people whom you would scarcely ask to lunch unless some one else had failed you at the last moment; if you are supping at a restaurant at New Year’s Eve you are permitted and expected to join hands and sing “For Auld Land Syne” with strangers whom you have never seen before and never want to see again. But no licence is allowed in the opposite direction.”
(pages 278-9)
Susan Lady Beanford was a vigorous old woman who had coquetted with imaginary ill-health for the greater part of a lifetime; Clovis Sangrail irreverently declared that she had caught a chill at the Coronation of Queen Victoria and had never let it go again.
(page 347)
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