The Unbearable Bassington: A Charming Idler and His Reckoning
Saki
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Carl Bille, Antonio Jacobsen and Vilhelm Arnesen. A young man of great charm and no means is manoeuvred by his mother towards money and a career, and neither of them will admit affection until it is too late. Saki wrote only two novels and this is the crueller; the last page is one of the coldest endings in English fiction. This edition is bound with a gallery of 60 plates, among them paintings by Carl Schuch, Raden Saleh and Robert Mannix, ranging from still life and portraiture to animals and landscape.
Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Carl Bille, Antonio Jacobsen and Vilhelm Arnesen. A young man of great charm and no means is manoeuvred by his mother towards money and a career, and neither of them will admit affection until it is too late. Saki wrote only two novels and this...
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Saki (1870-1916) was the pen name of Hector Hugh Munro, a British writer born in Burma and raised by aunts in Devon. He was a foreign correspondent in the Balkans and Russia, wrote the sharpest short stories of the Edwardian era, and enlisted as a private at forty-three, refusing a commission. He was killed by a sniper on the Somme. His works include Reginald, The Chronicles of Clovis, Beasts and Super-Beasts, and The Unbearable Bassington.
Saki (1870-1916) was the pen name of Hector Hugh Munro, a British writer born in Burma and raised by aunts in Devon. He was a foreign correspondent in the Balkans and Russia, wrote the sharpest short stories of the Edwardian era, and enlisted as a private at forty-three, refusing a commission. He...
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