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The unrest-cure and other stories / by Saki ; illustrated by Edward Gorey.
- Title
- The unrest-cure and other stories / by Saki ; illustrated by Edward Gorey.
- Author
- Saki, 1870-1916
- Publication
- New York : New York Review Books, [2013]
- ©2012
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PR6025.U675 A6 2013 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 164 pages : illustrations; 20 cm.
- Summary
- The whimsical, macabre tales of British writer H. H. Munro, better known as Saki, skewer the banality and hypocrisy of polite English society between the end of the Victorian era and the beginning of World War I. Saki's heroes are enfants terribles who marshal their considerable wit and imagination against the cruelty and fatuousness of a decorous and doomed world.
- Series Statement
- New York Review Books classics
- Uniform Title
- Short stories. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Short stories.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Short stories
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- From Reginald -- Form Reginald in Russia -- From The chronicles of Clovis -- From Beasts and super-beasts -- From The toys of peace.
- ISBN
- 9781590176245 (alk. paper)
- 1590176243 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2013001267
- OCLC
- 809978098
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library