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For readers who enjoy brief, darkly funny stories, resourceful children, and the puncturing of social pretension, with animals and clever troublemakers upsetting respectable lives.
Che cos’è questo libro
Beasts and Super-Beasts is a collection of short stories by Saki about respectable people whose orderly lives are disturbed by animals, unruly children, and clever troublemakers. Its appeal lies in the sharp gap between polite manners and bad intentions, with compact stories that make drawing rooms and country houses feel unexpectedly dangerous.
In questo riassunto
- 1Good manners meet a mischievous imaginationFree
- 2A nervous visitor hears an alarming family story
- 3Nicholas pits curiosity against his aunt’s authority
- 4Storytelling and mistaken identity challenge conventional education
- 5Wild creatures unsettle human claims to control
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Good manners meet a mischievous imagination
In Beasts and Super-Beasts, good manners offer little protection against someone with a better imagination. Saki places his characters in country houses, railway carriages, nurseries, and other settings where people expect certain rules to hold. Hosts should welcome guests, children should obey adults, and strangers should behave sensibly. His stories begin when someone decides to take advantage of those expectations.
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Questions about Bestie e super-bestie
What is Beasts and Super-Beasts about?
Beasts and Super-Beasts collects short comic stories about social pretension, adult authority, mischievous children, and the intrusion of the wild into respectable life. Saki repeatedly puts confident people in situations where their manners, assumptions, or sense of importance make them easy targets.
Which famous Saki stories are in Beasts and Super-Beasts?
The collection includes The Open Window, The Lumber Room, The Storyteller, and The Schartz-Metterklume Method. These stories show several sides of Saki's humour, from invented family histories and forbidden pleasures to unconventional storytelling and attacks on comfortable ideas about education.
Who was Saki?
Saki was the pen name of Hector Hugh Munro, a British writer best known for short stories that combine social satire with mischief and menace. He published Beasts and Super-Beasts in 1914 and died while serving in the First World War in 1916.
Why is it called Beasts and Super-Beasts?
The title pairs animals with people whose conduct can be more disruptive than any animal's. It suits a collection in which civilised behaviour is often only a thin covering over vanity, cruelty, appetite, and the pleasure of making trouble.
Is Beasts and Super-Beasts suitable for children?
Although children feature prominently, these are not simply children's stories. The collection includes dark humour, cruelty, and disturbing situations. Older teenagers who enjoy sharp comedy may appreciate it, but adults are often better placed to catch its attacks on manners and social authority.