The Complete Short Stories of Saki

by Saki

Overview

The buttoned-up world of the British upper classes is exploded by the brilliance, wit and audacity of Saki's bomb-like stories. In "The Open Window" an imaginative teenager gives a visitor the fright of his life. In "The Unrest Cure" the ordered home of a respectable country gent is rocked to its core. And "Laura" expresses the hope of revenge via reincarnation. For punchlines, twists, satire and pure mirth, Saki's stories are second-to-none.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781784871918
Publisher:	Random House UK
Publication date:	10/01/2017
Series:	Vintage Classics
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	692
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.80(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

Saki is the pen name of H. H. Munro. He began his writing career as a journalist and foreign correspondent but later turned to writing fiction—predominantly short stories for which he is best-remembered.

Editorial Reviews

"One of the funniest writers in the English language . . . Saki was incapable of writing a dull sentence, but the final lines of his short stories are works of art in themselves." —Daily Telegraph

"Read Saki, shiver, then smile. In his mixture of the exotic with the wholly English, of brazen charm with unapologetic spite, he stands alone." —Independent

"Saki writes like an enemy. Society has bored him to the point of murder. Our laughter is only a note or two short of a scream of fear." —V. S. Pritchett

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