Collected Short Stories of Saki

'All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other peoples'.

Saki (H.H. Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekhov and O Henry as a master of the short story. His extraordinary stories are a mixture of humorous satire, irony and the macabre, in which the stupidities and hypocrisy of conventional society are viciously pilloried.

This collection includes 'Sredni Vastor' and 'The Unrest Cure'. \"We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other married couples they sometimes live apart\".

Short Stories include:

Reginald
Reginald in Russia
Gabriel-Ernest
Esme
Tobermory
The Easter Egg
The Open Window
The Schartz-Metterklume Method
The Story-Teller
The Toys of Peace
The Interlopers
The Bull
And many more…

AUTHOR
Born in Burma in 1870, H(ector) H(ugh) Munro, or Saki, ranks alongside de Maupassant and O. Henry as a master of the short story. Written in the period between Queen Victoria's death, and his own in the trenches in France in 1916, his witty tales of the adventures of the English upper class in Edwardian England were influential on the works of P.G. Wodehouse.

ISBN: 9781853260711
Author: MUNRO, HECTOR HUGH
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 06/09/1995
RRP: $12.99
Pages: 512
Dimension: 197mm X 127mm
Imprint: Wordsworth