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The Unbearable Bassington

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  • In Saki

    ” His novel The Unbearable Bassington (1912) describes the adventures of a fastidious and likable but maladjusted hero, in a manner anticipating that of the early work of the English satirist Evelyn Waugh. Munro was killed in action in World War I.

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novel of manners

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    In novel: The novel of manners

    Munro (“Saki”), in The Unbearable Bassington (1912), an exquisite novel of manners, says more of the nature of Edwardian society than many a more earnest work. It is conceivable that one of the novelist’s duties to posterity is to inform it of the surface quality of the society…

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