Página inicialGruposDiscussãoMaisZeitgeist
Pesquise No Site
Este site usa cookies para fornecer nossos serviços, melhorar o desempenho, para análises e (se não estiver conectado) para publicidade. Ao usar o LibraryThing, você reconhece que leu e entendeu nossos Termos de Serviço e Política de Privacidade . Seu uso do site e dos serviços está sujeito a essas políticas e termos.

Resultados do Google Livros

Clique em uma foto para ir ao Google Livros

Carregando...

The Short Stories of Saki (1930)

de Saki

Outros autores: Christopher Morley (Introdução)

MembrosResenhasPopularidadeAvaliação médiaMenções
1,4372612,735 (4.14)35
The buttoned-up world of the British upper classes is exploded by the brilliance, wit and audacity of Saki's bomb-like stories. In 'The Open Window' an imaginative teenager gives a visitor the fright of his life. In 'The Unrest Cure' the ordered home of a respectable country gent is rocked to its core. And 'Laura' expresses the hope of revenge via reincarnation. For punchlines, twists, satire and pure mirth, Saki's stories are second-to-none.… (mais)
Carregando...

Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro.

Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.

» Veja também 35 menções

Mostrando 1-5 de 25 (seguinte | mostrar todas)
I merely told her with engaging simplicity that the art of life was the avoidance of the unattainable.
(page 8)

Even the Hooligan was probably invented in China centuries before we thought of him.
(page 18)

He classified the Princess with that distinct type of woman that looks as if it habitually went out to feed hens in the rain.
(page 35)

If there is any truth in the theory of transmigration, this particular mouse must certainly have been in a former state a member of the Alpine Club.
(page 82)

And be surrounded by Americans trying to talk French? No, thank you. I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.
(page 122)

One cannot discount the unpleasant things of this world merely by looking the other way.
(page 124)

“Who are those depressed-looking young women who have just gone by?” asked the Baroness; “they have the air of people who have bowed to destiny and are not quite sure whether the salute will be returned.”
(page 150)

“The trouble is,” said Clovis to his aunt, “all these days of intrusive remembrance harp so persistently on one aspect of human nature and entirely ignore the other; that is way they become so perfunctory and artificial. At Christmas and New Year you are emboldened and encourage by convention to send gushing messages of optimistic goodwill and servile affection to people whom you would scarcely ask to lunch unless some one else had failed you at the last moment; if you are supping at a restaurant at New Year’s Eve you are permitted and expected to join hands and sing “For Auld Land Syne” with strangers whom you have never seen before and never want to see again. But no licence is allowed in the opposite direction.”
(pages 278-9)

Susan Lady Beanford was a vigorous old woman who had coquetted with imaginary ill-health for the greater part of a lifetime; Clovis Sangrail irreverently declared that she had caught a chill at the Coronation of Queen Victoria and had never let it go again.
(page 347)

( )
  NewLibrary78 | Jul 22, 2023 |
I found that Saki's humor worked better for me when I read his short stories than listening to them in audio. Frederick Davidson & Nadia May did an acceptable job narrating (though Davidson was not as good as May)...

( )
  leslie.98 | Jun 27, 2023 |
I've read other collections of Saki, and love his droll wit and surprising twists. ( )
  librisissimo | Feb 16, 2023 |
A few were crude, some were strange, many were clever, most were funny. A very different kind of storytelling than the epic saga, and thus refreshing in a way. I recommend to any who delight in witty social commentary but haven't entire afternoons to devote to leisure. ( )
  Michael_J | Jun 2, 2022 |
Beautiful stories that touch the soul. Filled with Eastern mysticism, each story is a little shining light.

I was given this book by an English professor at a college in Minnesota where I spent a winter.

He and I shared our mutual love of poetry and prose. He gave me an old copy of this book, dedicated to "The one who came to visit and stayed." ( )
  Windyone1 | May 10, 2022 |
Mostrando 1-5 de 25 (seguinte | mostrar todas)
sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha

» Adicionar outros autores (3 possíveis)

Nome do autorFunçãoTipo de autorObra?Status
Sakiautor principaltodas as ediçõesconfirmado
Morley, ChristopherIntroduçãoautor secundáriotodas as ediçõesconfirmado

Pertence à série publicada

Contém

The Story-Teller de Saki (indireta)
Fur {short story} de Saki (indireta)
Tea {short story} de Saki (indireta)
Fate {short story} de Saki (indireta)
Você deve entrar para editar os dados de Conhecimento Comum.
Para mais ajuda veja a página de ajuda do Conhecimento Compartilhado.
Título canônico
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês. Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Título original
Títulos alternativos
Data da publicação original
Pessoas/Personagens
Lugares importantes
Eventos importantes
Filmes relacionados
Epígrafe
Dedicatória
Primeiras palavras
Citações
Últimas palavras
Aviso de desambiguação
Editores da Publicação
Autores Resenhistas (normalmente na contracapa do livro)
Idioma original
CDD/MDS canônico
LCC Canônico

Referências a esta obra em recursos externos.

Wikipédia em inglês

Nenhum(a)

The buttoned-up world of the British upper classes is exploded by the brilliance, wit and audacity of Saki's bomb-like stories. In 'The Open Window' an imaginative teenager gives a visitor the fright of his life. In 'The Unrest Cure' the ordered home of a respectable country gent is rocked to its core. And 'Laura' expresses the hope of revenge via reincarnation. For punchlines, twists, satire and pure mirth, Saki's stories are second-to-none.

Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas.

Descrição do livro
Resumo em haiku

Current Discussions

Nenhum(a)

Capas populares

Links rápidos

Gêneros

Classificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)

813Literature English (North America) American fiction

Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos E.U.A. (LCC)

Avaliação

Média: (4.14)
0.5
1 5
1.5
2 4
2.5 1
3 21
3.5 8
4 73
4.5 13
5 71

É você?

Torne-se um autor do LibraryThing.

 

Sobre | Contato | LibraryThing.com | Privacidade/Termos | Ajuda/Perguntas Frequentes | Blog | Loja | APIs | TinyCat | Bibliotecas Históricas | Os primeiros revisores | Conhecimento Comum | 203,187,001 livros! | Barra superior: Sempre visível