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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A collection of short stories by Saki. I didn't understand a couple of them - the ones that seemed to be mostly about the Balkan Wars? But obviously I enjoyed the mockery of Edwardian high society. ( ) Sharp collection of short stories by Munro, who died during World War I and thus had his career cut short by a combat death. A number of the entries are either hilarious (such as the title story, which is a sharp rebuke to those trying to induce children to take up "peaceful" toys), or have a definite bite to them. A number of references to contemporary politics (such as unrest in Mexico or Albania, or the suffragette movement) betray the ca. 1910-1914 time period in which the stories were written, but remarkably, the stories by and large hold up. Well worth picking up. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Classic Literature.
Fiction.
Short Stories.
Humor (Fiction.)
HTML: Edwardian society was rife with hypocrisy and ridiculousness, and the writer who worked under the pen name Saki delighted in skewering these conventions. The collection The Toys of Peace, and Other Papers includes one of Saki's best-known short stories and a variety of other engaging pieces. .No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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