Reseña del libro "Beasts and Super-Beasts (en Inglés)"
Beasts and Super-Beasts is a collection of short stories, written by Saki (the literary pseudonym of Hector Hugh Munro) and first published in 1914. The title parodies that of George Bernard Shawu0027s Man and Superman.
Along with The Chronicles of Clovis, Beasts and Super-Beasts is one of Sakiu0027s best-known works. It was his final collection of stories before his death in World War I, and several of its stories, in particular u0027The Open Windowu0027, are reprinted frequently in anthologies.
The book contains the following stories:
u0027The She-Wolfu0027
u0027Laurau0027
u0027The Boar-Pigu0027
u0027The Brogueu0027
u0027The Henu0027
u0027The Open Windowu0027
u0027The Treasure-Shipu0027
u0027The Cobwebu0027
u0027The Lullu0027
u0027The Unkindest Blowu0027
u0027The Romancersu0027
u0027The Schartz-Metterklume Methodu0027
u0027The Seventh Pulletu0027
u0027The Blind Spotu0027
u0027Dusku0027
u0027A Touch of Realismu0027
u0027Cousin Teresau0027
u0027The Yarkand Manneru0027
u0027The Byzantine Omeletteu0027
u0027The Feast of Nemesisu0027
u0027The Dreameru0027
u0027The Quince Treeu0027
u0027The Forbidden Buzzardsu0027
u0027The Stakeu0027
u0027Clovis on Parental Responsibilitiesu0027
u0027A Holiday Tasku0027
u0027The Stalled Oxu0027
u0027The Story-Telleru0027
u0027A Defensive Diamondu0027
u0027The Elku0027
u0027Down Pensu0027
u0027The Name-Dayu0027
u0027The Lumber Roomu0027
u0027Furu0027
u0027The Philanthropist and the Happy Catu0027
u0027On Approvalu0027
The majority of the volumeu0027s stories deal in some fashion with animals, providing the source for its title. The character of Clovis Sangrail, featured in earlier works by Saki, appears in several stories. Most of the stories appeared previously in periodicals.
Stylistically, Beasts and Super-Beasts displays the simple language, cynicism and wry humor that characterize Sakiu0027s earlier literary output. (Wikipedia)
Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 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. (Wikipedia)
