Hector H. Munro
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The Unbearable Bassington
Categories: Fiction » Literature
In Edwardian London, a charming but feckless young man drifts from club to country house, turning every opportunity into a disaster. As his ambitious mother schemes to secure their place in society, his wit and recklessness drive away love and fortune, until one final, bitter exile forces him to face what he has squandered.
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Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches
Categories: Fiction » Humor & Comedy
From snowbound trains to gilded salons, a mercilessly witty observer skewers cant, class, and credulity in crisp sketches that slip from drawing-room farce to little shocks of cruelty. Priests, princes, aunts, and aesthetes all fall to his epigrams, while travel misadventures and social skirmishes reveal the elegant savagery of manners—and the joke that always lands with claws.
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Reginald
Categories: Fiction » Humor & Comedy
A devastatingly witty young man drifts through drawing rooms, garden parties, and country-house weekends, tossing epigrams like grenades. With insolent charm he punctures piety, meddles in romances, and turns petty scandals into art. These razor-edged sketches of Edwardian society revel in mischief, elegance, and the perilous sport of saying exactly the wrong thing beautifully.
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The Chronicles of Clovis
Categories: Fiction » Humor & Comedy
Meet a delightfully wicked young man who prowls Edwardian drawing rooms and country weekends, detonating pranks and epigrams that expose the vanity of hosts, bishops, and bored aristocrats. These razor-short tales skewer social pretension with icy wit, beasts and scandals colliding in elegant gardens, where every courtesy hides a trap and every ending snaps like a mousetrap.
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When William Came
Categories: Fiction » Politics
In a quietly conquered Britain, citizens wake to find their island absorbed into a foreign empire, its language, laws, and loyalties rewritten from above. Amid salons, clubs, and drawing rooms, some adapt for comfort while others quietly seethe, weighing safety against sacrifice as they debate whether resistance is noble—or hopeless.
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The Westminster Alice
Categories: Fiction » Politics
A curious little girl drifts not through Wonderland but through Westminster, where Cabinet ministers grow and shrink like playing cards and debates turn into nonsense tea parties. With nursery-rhyme logic and razor wit, each encounter slyly tears the mask from pompous leaders and shows politics as a dazzling, dangerous joke.
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Beasts and Super-Beasts
Categories: Fiction » Humor & Comedy
A dazzling collection of sharp-witted tales where mischievous animals and cunning humans collide in Edwardian society. From a wolf upending a country house to a cat sparking chaos, these stories blend dark humor and satire, exposing human folly and vanity. With biting irony, they reveal the wild, absurd undercurrents of polite life, delighting in the unexpected twists of fate.
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The Toys of Peace and Other Papers
Categories: Fiction » Humor & Comedy
A mischievous eye surveys Edwardian respectability in swift sketches and tales: a well-meaning aunt offers pacifist toys that spark warlike imagination dinner guests trade poisoned courtesies bureaucrats, bishops and bored children hatch deliciously cruel surprises. Wit as sharp as claws exposes vanity, piety and politics, turning drawing rooms into little battlefields of laughter.
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