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(Ebook) SREDNI VASHTAR - Sardonic Tales by Saki, Hector Hugh Munro, H.H. Munro ISBN 9781905784073, 1905784074

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Authors:Saki, Hector Hugh Munro, H.H. Munro
Pages:293 pages.
Year:2008
Editon:First Edition
Publisher:Tartarus Press
Language:english
File Size:9.51 MB
Format:pdf
ISBNS:9781905784073, 1905784074
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(Ebook) SREDNI VASHTAR - Sardonic Tales by Saki, Hector Hugh Munro, H.H. Munro ISBN 9781905784073, 1905784074

Contents: 'Introduction'
by Mark Valentine, 'The Reticence of Lady Anne', 'The Lost Sanjak',
'Gabriel-Ernest', 'The Saint and the Goblin', 'The Soul of Laploshka',
'Esmé', 'Tobermory', 'The Background', 'The Unrest-Cure', 'Sredni
Vashtar', 'The Easter Egg', 'The Music on the Hill', 'The Peace of
Mowsle Barton', 'The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope', ' "Ministers of
Grace" ', 'The Remoulding of Groby Lington', 'The She-Wolf', 'Laura',
'The Hen', 'The Open Window', 'The Cobweb', 'The Seventh Pullet', 'The
Blind Spot', 'The Story-Teller', 'The Lumber-Room', 'The Toys of Peace',
'The Wolves of Cernagratz', 'The Interlopers', 'The Hedgehog', 'The
Image of the Lost Soul', 'The Infernal Parliament', 'When William Came'.
This
collection brings together all of the sharpest, darkest, weird and
macabre tales of Edwardian satirist Hector Hugh Munro (who adopted the
pen-name, 'Saki'). Among the best of these are the stories of the
unlikely god Sredni Vashtar, a beautiful young werewolf, the dying and
unmourned Laura, and the laughter of the youthful and merciless Pan.
Saki
brings to the supernatural tale a studied nonchalance and a terse
remorselessness in the telling. 'Wittily sombre and elegantly grim' was
one well-turned contemporary evocation of his work. All the trappings of
the Gothic, and the later antiquarian, ghost or horror story, have been
quite banished from his work. There is no laboured building-up of
portent, no labyrinthine twisting of devious history, no elaborate
word-painting to conjure up atmosphere. Instead, Saki achieves a
fastidious precision and economy. In his mastery of the sardonic and his
ironic, adroit deployment of the supernatural, he has few equals
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