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The Unbearable Bassington
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Saki's satirical novel follows Comus Bassington, an idle and charming young man adrift in Edwardian London society, and his mother's efforts to secure his future. It suits readers interested in early twentieth-century English satire and comedy of manners.
Saki
Hector Hugh Munro, popularly known by his pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirise Edwardian society and culture. He is considered to be a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, Munro himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse.
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