The Chronicles of Clovis

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penguin twentieth - century classics
SAKI (H. H. MUNRO) The Chronicles of Clovis
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY AUBERON WAUGH
'In all literature, he was the first to employ successfully a wildly outrageous premise in order to make a serious point Hove that And today the best of his stories are still better than the best ofjust about every other writer around' - Roald Dahl
Hector Munro, whose pen-name Saki is thought to drive from the golden boy of
that name in FitzGerald's Kuba'iyat, remains an oddly mysterious figure. The apparent savagery of his work made him a rarefied taste among contemporaries, although he was taken to be a master by Noël Coward and Evelyn Waugh.
Saki's territory is the drawing room and country-house party of the Edwardian upper class, whose britde façade he exposes with his acid and very funny prose. From the cynical tale of Tobermory, the speaking cat, to the supernatural terror of
'The Music on the Hill' and the black humour of'The Unrest-Cure', these... Tovább

Fülszöveg

penguin twentieth - century classics
SAKI (H. H. MUNRO) The Chronicles of Clovis
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY AUBERON WAUGH
'In all literature, he was the first to employ successfully a wildly outrageous premise in order to make a serious point Hove that And today the best of his stories are still better than the best ofjust about every other writer around' - Roald Dahl
Hector Munro, whose pen-name Saki is thought to drive from the golden boy of
that name in FitzGerald's Kuba'iyat, remains an oddly mysterious figure. The apparent savagery of his work made him a rarefied taste among contemporaries, although he was taken to be a master by Noël Coward and Evelyn Waugh.
Saki's territory is the drawing room and country-house party of the Edwardian upper class, whose britde façade he exposes with his acid and very funny prose. From the cynical tale of Tobermory, the speaking cat, to the supernatural terror of
'The Music on the Hill' and the black humour of'The Unrest-Cure', these twenty-eight stories and short sketches show the full range of his talent at a time when, as Auberon Waugh says in his Introduction, 'his rage and indignation against humanity had not yet conquered the simple desire to please'.
Cover photograph: Cecil Beaton Archive, courtesy of Sotheby's, London
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