The Westminster Alice

By Saki

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Nov 22, 2019
• ISBN: 4057664633187

Saki

Saki (1870-1916) was the pen name of British novelist and short story writer Hector Hugh Munro. Born in British Burma, Munro was the son of Inspector General Charles Augustus Munro of the Indian Imperial Police and his wife Mary Frances Mercer. Following his mother’s death from a tragic accident in 1872, Munro was sent to live in England with his paternal grandmother. In 1893, he returned to Burma to work for the Indian Imperial Police but was forced to resign in just over a year due to serious illness. He moved to London in 1896 to pursue a career as a writer. He found some success as a journalist and soon published The Rise of the Russian Empire (1900), a work of history. Emboldened, he began writing stories and novels, earning praise for Reginald (1904), a short story collection, and When William Came (1913), an invasion novel. Known for his keen wit and satirical outlook on Edwardian life, Munro was considered a master literary craftsman in his time. A gay man, he was forced to conceal his sexual identity in order to avoid criminal prosecution. At 43 years of age, he enlisted in the British cavalry and went to France to fight in the Great War. He was killed by a German sniper at the Battle of the Ancre.

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Saki

The Westminster Alice

Published by Good Press, 2022

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EAN 4057664633187

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

ALICE IN DOWNING STREET

ALICE IN PALL MALL

ALICE AT LAMBETH

ALICE AND THE LIBERAL PARTY

ALICE ANYWHERE BUT IN DOWNING STREET

ALICE IN DIFFICULTIES

ALICE AT ST. STEPHEN’S

ALICE LUNCHES AT WESTMINSTER

ALICE IN A FOG

ALICE HAS TEA AT THE HOTEL CECIL

ALICE GOES TO CHESTERFIELD

THE AGED MAN

SPADES IN WONDERLAND

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Alice

," Child with dreaming eyes,

Noting things that come to pass

Turvey-wise in Wonderland

Backwards through a Looking-Glass.

Figures flit across thy dream,

Muddle through and flicker out

Some in cocksure blessedness,

Some in Philosophic Doubt.

Some in brackets, some in sulks,

Some with latchkeys on the ramp,

Living (in a sort of peace)

In a Concentration Camp.

Party moves on either side,

Checks and feints that don’t deceive,

Knights and Bishops, Pawns and all,

In a game of Make-Believe.

Things that fall contrariwise,

Difficult to understand,

Darkly through a Looking-Glass

Turvey-wise in Wonderland.

ALICE IN DOWNING STREET

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Have

you ever seen an Ineptitude?" asked the Cheshire Cat suddenly; the Cat was nothing if not abrupt.

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CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT YOU ARE DOING HERE? ALICE INQUIRED POLITELY.

Not in real life, said Alice. Have you any about here?

A few, answered the Cat comprehensively. Over there, for instance, it added, contracting its pupils to the requisite focus, is the most perfect specimen we have.

Alice followed the direction of its glance and noticed for the first time a figure sitting in a very uncomfortable attitude on nothing in particular. Alice had no time to wonder how it managed to do it, she was busy taking in the appearance of the creature, which was something like a badly-written note of interrogation and something like a guillemot, and seemed to have been trying to preen its rather untidy plumage with whitewash. "What