What we find frightening about this novel is the very premise: England has been subjugated and annexed by Germany . . . When William Came, written before World War I, is a grim tale of a then-fictional war between Britain and Germany. Saki's biting wit is aimed squarely at British...
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...
When William Came (1913) is a novel by Saki. Considered a masterpiece of invasion literature, When William Came indulges in the paranoid atmosphere of the leadup to the Great War to weave a sinister tale of espionage, survival, and conspiracy. Keenly aware of...
When William Came: A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns is a novel written by British author Saki first published in 1913.Any profits generated from the sale of this book will go towards the Freeriver Community project, a project designed to promote harmonious community...
When William Came (1913) is a novel by Saki. Considered a masterpiece of invasion literature, When William Came indulges in the paranoid atmosphere of the leadup to the Great War to weave a sinister tale of espionage, survival, and conspiracy. Keenly aware of...
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely...
Book Excerpt: ...opportunity, and made the most of it. She had not contented herself with bowing to the inevitable, she had stretched out her hand to it, and forced herself to smile graciously at it, and her polite attentions had been reciprocated. Lady Shalem, without being...
Saki (1870 -1916), was the pen name of the British author Hector Hugh Munro, whose witty and sometimes macabre stories satirised Edwardian society and culture. The name Saki is often thought to be a reference to the cupbearer in the Rub iy t of Omar Khayyam, a poem mentioned...
""When William Came"" is a novel written by H.H. Munro, also known as Saki, and was first published in 1913. The story takes place in London, in an alternate reality where Germany has won the First World War and King William II of the Hohenzollern dynasty has ascended to the...
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When William Came is a novel written by H.H. Munro, also known as Saki, and published in 1913. The story is set in London in the early 20th century and imagines a future in which Germany has won World War I and now rules over Britain under the Hohenzollern dynasty. The novel...
"When William Came" from Saki. British writer (1870-1916).
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When William Came By Saki When William Came: A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns is a novel written by British author Saki first published in 1913. Any profits generated from the sale of this book will go towards the Freeriver Community project, a project designed to promote...
When William Came: A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns is a novel written by the British author Saki (the pseudonym of Hector Hugh Munro) and published in November 1913. It is set several years in what was then the future, after a war between Germany and Great Britain in...