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Category: saki

Saki’s When William Came

When William Came by Saki  (H H Munro) is a complicated novel. On the face of it, it’s a straight propagandist story at the peak of the anti-German pre-First World War war fever craze, to warn the British to start preparing for war and get the young men into the army as soon as possible. … Continue reading Saki’s When William Came →

Kate 20thC, Antony Hope, baroque and dramatic, bildungsroman, community life, E F Benson, history, humour, oneupmanship, parody, passion and secrets, political / social commentary, saki, the life of the times, wartime Leave a comment February 13, 2017August 17, 2017

E C Bentley and Trent’s Last Case

    Sir Humphry Davy Was not fond of gravy. He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium E C Bentley published his first collection of clerihews in 1905, as Biography for Beginners, and in this he was clearly the inspiration for such other classics of amateur history interpretations as 1066 And All That, and … Continue reading E C Bentley and Trent’s Last Case →

Kate art, detective, Dorothy L Sayers, E C Bentley, Edwardian, humour, literary history, Margery Allingham, middlebrow, passion and secrets, political / social commentary, saki, the life of the times, Why I Really Like This Book 1 Comment January 30, 2017January 27, 2017
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