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When William Came; A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns
Saki
Paperback. General Books LLC 2009-12-22.
ISBN 9781150324383
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1914 Original Publisher: John Lane Description: 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 politics in this thinly veiled story -- he, like many others, could see war approaching, and who would want to see a conflict of such proportion? Unnerving stuff, we say. . . . Subjects: London (England) World War, 1914-1918 Fiction / Literary Fiction / Classics Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary History / Military / World War I Humor / General Humor / Form / Essays Literary Collections / Essays Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III " THE METSKIE TSAR " " T WAS in the early stages of my fever A when I got the first inkling of what was going on, " said Yeovil to the doctor, as they sat over their coffee in a recess of the big smoking-room; " just able to potter about a bit in the daytime, fighting against depression and inertia, feverish as evening came on, and delirious in the night. My game tracker and my attendant were both Buriats, and spoke very little Russian, and that was the only language we had in common to converse in. In matters concerning food and sport we soon got to understand each other, but on other subjects we were not easily able to exchange ideas. One day my tracker had been to a distant trading- store to get some things of which we werein need ; the store was eighty miles from the nearest point of railroad, eighty miles of terribly bad roads, but it was in its way a centre
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