When William Came

A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns

Saki

• Publisher: Passerino
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9788835891413
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

When William Came: A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns (1913) is SAKI'sDystopian novelpredicting a futuristic "Great War" between Germany and Great Britain in which Germany is victorious and occupies London. "William" refers to Kaiser Wilhelm II. Interestingly, Munro himself was killed during World War I by a German sniper while fighting in the 22nd Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers. 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 by English teachers and scholars as a master of the short story, and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse.
Besides his short stories (which were first published in newspapers, as was customary at the time, and then collected into several volumes), he wrote a full-length play, The Watched Pot, in collaboration with Charles Maude; two one-act plays; a historical study, The Rise of the Russian Empire (the only book published under his own name); a short novel, The Unbearable Bassington; the episodic The Westminster Alice (a parliamentary parody of Alice in Wonderland); and When William Came, subtitled A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns, a fantasy about a future German invasion and occupation of Britain.

Table of contents

• Cover
• When William Came
• Table of contents
• Chapter I: The Singing-Bird and the Barometer
• Chapter II: The Homescoming
• Chapter III: The Metzkie Tsar
• Chapter IV: "Es Ist Verboten"
• Chapter V: L'Art D'Etre Cousine
• Chapter VI: Herr Van Kwarl
• Chapter VII: The Lure
• Chapter VIII: The First-Night
• Chapter IX: An Evening "To Be Remembered"
• Chapter X: A Reflection and a "Te Deum"
• Chapter XI: The Tea Shop
• Chapter XII: The Travelling Companions
• Chapter XIII: The Torywood
• Chapter XIV: "A Perfectly Glorious Afternoon"
• Chapter XV: The Intelligent Anticipator of Wants
• Chapter XVI: Sunrise
• Chapter XVII: The Event of the Season
• Chapter XVIII: The Dead Who Do Not Understand
• Chapter XIX: The Little Foxes