The Unbearable Bassington is a novel by the British author Saki (the pseudonym of Hector Hugh Munro) published in 1912. Set mainly in London, with a section in Paris, the novel focuses on the Mayfair social scene of bridge, dinner parties, concerts, and the sporting events of the season. At the beginning of the book, the anti-hero, Comus Bassington, a "beautiful wayward laughing boy", the spoilt only child of Francesca Bassington, a fashionable widow who for the while lives in an expensive home, is in his last year at school, where he is a sadistic prefect. After he ends his school career, he lives with his mother and joins a group of bores and savage society wits. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)