Macabre, acid and very funny, Saki's work drives a knife into the uppercut trust of English Edwardian life. Here are the effets and dashing heroes, Reginald, Clovis and Comus Bassington, and tea on the lawn with articulate duchesses, the smell of gunshot and the tinkle of the caviar fork, and here is the half-seen, half-felt menace of disturbing undercurrents... all in this magnifient omnibus édition.
Like Wilde ans Wodehouse, Saki knew his way round ... >Voir plus