The Complete Short Stories of Saki (H. H. Munro) (Paperback)

from liehtzu

This is a really enjoyable collection of Victorian/Edwardian-era satire, the prose is wonderful and the humour bitingly apt for its time and culture. Think Oscar Wilde though not quite as adept. As window into a class system (as satirised by Wilde, by GBS -think Pygmalion, P.G. Wodehouse's - thin...

from GrazianoRonca

SREDNI VASHTAR and THE OPEN WINDOW Sredni Vashtar is a short story written between 1900 and 1914 by Saki (Hector Hugh Munro). This story is collected in this volume and also in an audiobook: Classic Chiiling Tales. A 10-year-old boy called Conradin lives with his guardian Mrs. De Ropp. Conradin's...

from Mouldywarp

Nearly every story a delight - highly recommended entertainment!

from julsitos2

The guy is on the same level as that of Chekov and Maugham. Almost all of his stories are full of morbid wit and sarcasm that all other Edwardian tales (think: The Little Princess) seem too stiff and wooden. His style is akin to that of aristocratic English authors, but never a difficult read lik...

from figre

In the introduction to this book is included the statement, "Saki's short stories of urbane malice are like a fine dessert wine - they should be sipped, and savoured slowly; so intense are they that to read them at one sitting may induce a kind of literary dyspepsia." I could not agree more. I ap...