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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: The Chronicles of Clovis (Kindle Edition)
It is Saki so of course the stories are marvelous. My one star is for the Kindle Edition. Every other line only contains two words so it is not a smooth block of text for the eye to follow.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: THE CHRONICLES OF CLOVIS (Kindle Edition)
I love Saki. These are some of the best, most biting, hilarious gems ever written in the English language. However, the Kindle edition is so hard to read, that I must subtract two stars for the formatting.
The Kindle edition is very hard to read because of the awkward line breaks and kerning. I believe the digitization of this book to have been untouched by human hands, with no proofreading at all. Some lines have four words evenly spaced out to each margin. In other instances, a hyphenated word will have an additional hyphen inserted midway to make a line break. Other pages have "widows or orphans", a solitary word on one page. Each time I encounter one of these, the eye and the brain go "Ker-thunk!" an it spoils the sense and rhythm of the story. Not worth even the low Kindle price; too many aggravations.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful stories. Unblemished prose.,
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This review is from: The Chronicles of Clovis (Penguin Twentieth-Century Clas) (Paperback)
These short stories constitute some of the best in the English language. They have quite a range in tone, from the extreamely humorous Unrest Cure to the mystery of Sredni Vashtar. Only The Easter Egg diappoints. Written in an Edwardian prose that never disappoints, read it like it was one of life's little luxuries.
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