The Toys of Peace and Other Papers

by Hector H. Munro

Language: English

Published: 1919-01-01. 61,750 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Humor & Comedy

Content Rating: Older than 13

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.