The Chronicles of Clovis : Stories by Saki (Paperback)

from maribou

When he was good, he was very very good, and when he was bad, he was tiresome. (Then I read something brilliant and cheered up!) Some of these stories are rather more like Ambrose Bierce than I remembered.

from xicanti

THE CHRONICLES OF CLOVIS is a collection of twenty-eight short stories. The longest tale stretches to a whopping ten pages, but most of them are more in the three- to five-page range. Clovis, an affluent young man with a troublemaker's spirit, serves as a unifying force throughout the majority of...

from memf

Deliciously bitter comic little stories of the upper class, five or ten pages long, icy, acidic, unsparing. Not a drop of kindness anywhere. Something like Maupassant triple-distilled. It only hurts when you laugh. This is a wonderful genre to which Saki alone belongs.

from michaelm42071

Munro's mind runs on rest-cures and unrest-cures, but it's mostly the latter if Clovis Sangrail is around (or even if he's not: sometimes he is a mere listener or inactive participant, sometimes he makes one comment, and sometimes, as in "Hermann the Irascible," "Sredni Vashtar,""The Chaplet,""Mo...

from EricCostello

Solid collection of short stories from a master of the genre. Saki/Munro was able to put across his stories with a lot of punch, and with great brevity, in this case being the soul of wit. Many of the stories in this collection feature his running character Clovis Sangrail, and his reactions and/...