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LEADER: 01565cam a2200289 i 4500
001 2014015510
003 DLC
005 20140820081022.0
008 140424s2014 ncuc b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014015510
020 $a9780786479498 (softcover : alk. paper)
020 $z9781476615325 (ebook)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPR6025.U675$bZ68 2014
082 00 $a823/.912$223
100 1 $aGibson, Brian,$d1976-
245 10 $aReading Saki :$bthe Fiction of H.H. Munro /$cBrian Gibson.
264 1 $aJefferson, North Carolina :$bMcFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,$c[2014]
300 $aviii, 287 pages :$bportrait ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 267-275) and index.
505 0 $aA note on the source text and on Saki's uncollected writings -- Introduction: Saki's dependent dissidence -- "A furtive sinister 'something'" Saki's camp -- "The threat" Saki's anti-auntness, misogyny and anti-suffragettism -- "Cross currents" anti-semitism, Slavic Europe and Britishness in Saki's fiction -- Conclusion: Self-betrayals.
520 $a"Here is a thorough critical re-examination of the Edwardian master of the darkly humorous short story, Saki (the pen name of Hector Hugh Munro, 1870-1916). Saki the satirist constantly rebelled against but depended upon the world of H.H. Munro, the gentleman bachelor"--$cProvided by publisher.
600 00 $aSaki,$d1870-1916$xCriticism and interpretation.