{"product_id":"2026100010229-secondhand-what-a-scream-and-other-stories","title":"What A Scream!: And Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the golden age of British comic writing comes What A Scream! And Other Stories, a delightfully irreverent collection by William Caine that captures the absurdities and social foibles of Edwardian and early twentieth-century life with razor-sharp wit. Each story presents a cast of hapless characters navigating the comic misfortunes of everyday existence, brought to vivid life through Caine's gift for farcical situation and perfectly timed prose — all rendered with additional visual panache through the celebrated illustrations of H. M. Bateman, the master caricaturist whose work graced the pages of Punch magazine.\n\nCaine's writing style is breezy yet precise, wielding irony and gentle satire to skewer pretension and social convention with an unmistakably British sensibility. This collection stands as a charming artefact of a literary tradition that prizes wit and wordplay above all else, sitting comfortably alongside the humorous short fiction of P. G. Wodehouse and W. W. Jacobs. For those who savour the art of the perfectly constructed comic tale, What A Scream! promises exactly what its title suggests — and then some.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50948327276763,"sku":"2026100010229-SECONDHAND","price":90.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/b12523d1-d702-4dbe-b6df-9cdcd901bd3f.png?v=1793104792","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100010229-secondhand-what-a-scream-and-other-stories","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}