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The Unbearable Bassington. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Saki (H.H. Munro)   -  Ionlineshopping.Com, 2019  - 

The Contrast, written in 1787 by Royall Tyler, is an American play in the tradition of the English Restoration comedies of the seventeenth century; it takes its cue from Sheridan's The School for Scandal, a British comedy of manners that had revived that tradition a decade before. Royall uses the form to satirize Americans who follow British fashions and indulge in 'British vices'. Thus, the play is often concerned with portraying the contrast between European and American culture. The Contrast is the first comedy written by an American citizen that was professionally produced. The play is most remembered for its prologue, which evaluates home-made versus foreign goods and ideas, and for the introduction of the Yankee of stock character.  The play begins with the coquettish Charlotte and Letitia talking about the forthcoming marriage and Maria’s distress due to her father’s marriage plans for her. Billy Dimple's father was Van Rough's business partner. Before the death of Dimple’s father, a marriage between Van Rough’s Daughter, Maria, and Dimple was settled. While Dimple becomes snobbish in England, Maria betakes herself to books that "improve her taste": "The contrast was so striking betwixt the good sense of her books, and the flimsiness of her love-letters, that she discovered that she had unthinkingly engaged her hand without her heart." In the second scene, Maria bemoans the "helpless situation of [her] sex": "Reputation is the life of a woman - and the only safe asylum a woman of delicacy can find, is in the arms of a man of honor." Even though Maria reveals to her father a lack of love towards Dimple, old Van Rough still wants her to marry Dimple, stressing that “money makes the mare go”. For him his daughter’s feelings are nonsense and money is the most important thing she should look out for. In a time when women usually were detained from enlightening their opinions by means of literature (biographies were acceptable, but no novels, since they were thought to produce a wrong world view), her father concludes that her sadness comes from “these vile books”. Not wanting to disappoint her father, Maria consents. Read the complete novel for further story....  

Beasts and Super-Beasts. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Saki   -  Ionlineshopping.Com, 2018  - 

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 Shaw's Man and Superman. Along with The Chronicles of Clovis, Beasts and Super-Beasts is one of Saki's best-known works. It was his final collection of stories before his death in World War I, and several of its stories, in particular "The Open Window", are reprinted frequently in anthologies. The majority of the volume's 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 Saki's earlier literary output. Contents The book contains the following stories:   "The She-Wolf" "Laura" "The Boar-Pig" "The Brogue" "The Hen" "The Open Window" "The Treasure-Ship" "The Cobweb" "The Lull" "The Unkindest Blow" "The Romancers" "The Schartz-Metterklume Method" "The Seventh Pullet" "The Blind Spot" "Dusk" "A Touch of Realism" "Cousin Teresa" "The Yarkand Manner" "The Byzantine Omelette" "The Feast of Nemesis" "The Dreamer" "The Quince Tree" "The Forbidden Buzzards" "The Stake" "Clovis on Parental Responsibilities" "A Holiday Task" "The Stalled Ox" "The Story-Teller" "A Defensive Diamond" "The Elk" "Down Pens" "The Name-Day" "The Lumber Room" "Fur" "The Philanthropist and the Happy Cat" "On Approval"