Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
The Academy
Author: The Babe, B.A.
Author: E F BensonPublisher:
ISBN: 9789354543272
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The book, The Babe, B.A., has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.
Across the Stream
Author: E. F. BensonPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
"Across the Stream" by E. F. Benson. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
The Spectator
Author: The Inlander
Author: Literary News
Author: Literary News
Author: L. PylodetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The Bookman
Author: A Comprehensive Dictionary of the English Language
Author: Joseph Emerson WorcesterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
The Unbearable Saki
Author: Sandie ByrnePublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191527572
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
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.