Beasts and Super-Beasts de Saki

Beasts and Super-Beasts

Saki

Alex Struik

Beasts and Super-Beasts is a collection of short stories, written by Saki and first published in 1914. The title parodies that of George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman. Along with The Chronicles of Clovis, Beasts and Super-Beasts is one of Saki's best-known works. It was his final collection of stories before his death in World War I, and several of its stories, in particular "The Open Window," are reprinted frequently in anthologies. Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 - 13 November 1916), better known by the pen name Saki, and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirised Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noel Coward, and P. G. Wodehouse."

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Paperback (12)	42^.04 lei 3-5 săpt.
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CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform –	46^.36 lei 3-5 săpt.
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform –	67^.21 lei 3-5 săpt.
Alpha Editions – 8 iun 2021	69^.35 lei 3-5 săpt.	+10^.56 lei 6-12 zile
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CREATESPACE –	89^.78 lei 3-5 săpt.
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Echo Library – 31 mai 2006	97^.18 lei 38-45 zile
CREATESPACE –	107^.37 lei 3-5 săpt.
Book Jungle – 26 apr 2009	125^.33 lei 6-8 săpt.
tredition GmbH – 31 oct 2011	143^.51 lei 6-8 săpt.
Echo Library – 31 mai 2006	148^.51 lei 3-5 săpt.

Preț

Express

Paperback (12)

42^.04 lei 3-5 săpt.

CREATESPACE –

42^.04 lei 3-5 săpt.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform –

46^.36 lei 3-5 săpt.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform –

67^.21 lei 3-5 săpt.

Alpha Editions – 8 iun 2021

69^.35 lei 3-5 săpt.

+10^.56 lei 6-12 zile

CREATESPACE –

83^.37 lei 3-5 săpt.

CREATESPACE –

89^.78 lei 3-5 săpt.

–

93^.03 lei 3-5 săpt.

Echo Library – 31 mai 2006

97^.18 lei 38-45 zile

CREATESPACE –

107^.37 lei 3-5 săpt.

Book Jungle – 26 apr 2009

125^.33 lei 6-8 săpt.

tredition GmbH – 31 oct 2011

143^.51 lei 6-8 săpt.

Echo Library – 31 mai 2006

148^.51 lei 3-5 săpt.

Notă biografică

Hector Hugh Munro (1870 - 1916), better known by the pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse. Besides his short stories (which were first published in newspapers, as was customary at the time and then collected into several volumes), he wrote a full-length play, The Watched Pot, in collaboration with Charles Maude; two one-act plays; a historical study, The Rise of the Russian Empire, the only book published under his own name; a short novel, The Unbearable Bassington; the episodic The Westminster Alice (a parliamentary parody of Alice in Wonderland); and When William Came, subtitled A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns, a fantasy about a future German invasion and occupation of Britain.