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Article: The Unbearable Saki: The Work of H.H. Munro. Sandie Byrne. Oxford University Pess.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2008
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The Unbearable Saki: The Work of H.H. Munro. Sandie Byrne. Oxford University Pess. [pounds sterling]19.99. xiii + 314 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-922605-4. H.H. Munro is most often remembered as the early nineteenth century writer of short stories who was the 'master of the macabre'. For many years he was the sophisticated journalist and writer, the man about town, whose nom de plume was 'Saki', yet the forty-six-year-old man was killed in the Great War in which he served as a mere Lance Corporal. Many have felt that Munro changed dramatically because of the war but Prof. Byrne disagrees. His prose was already changing before 1914 as seen in his last novel, William (1913). There ...