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The novel showcases Comus Bassington, a charming yet deeply flawed protagonist entangled in Edwardian society’s superficial pursuits and savage manners. As Comus navigates through a series of personal and social failures, his story unfolds into a poignant exploration of beauty, ambition, and exile. With its incisive humor and tragic undertones, this book is an exquisite dissection of human foibles and societal hypocrisy.

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The novel showcases Comus Bassington, a charming yet deeply flawed protagonist entangled in Edwardian society’s superficial pursuits and savage manners. As Comus navigates through a series of personal and social failures, his story unfolds into a poignant exploration of beauty, ambition, and exile. With its incisive humor and tragic undertones, this book is an exquisite dissection of human foibles and societal hypocrisy.
Autorenporträt
Hector Hugh Munro (1870 - 1916), better known by the pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse. Besides his short stories (which were first published in newspapers, as was customary at the time and then collected into several volumes), he wrote a full-length play, The Watched Pot, in collaboration with Charles Maude; two one-act plays; a historical study, The Rise of the Russian Empire, the only book published under his own name; a short novel, The Unbearable Bassington; the episodic The Westminster Alice (a parliamentary parody of Alice in Wonderland); and When William Came, subtitled A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns, a fantasy about a future German invasion and occupation of Britain.