Five fascinating stories by an author famed for wit and a fascination with the bizarre. Abridged. Great British & Irish Short Stories I.
I gave a sympathetic shudder at the idea ; eggs here cost 6 sous apiece . ... always choosing those that laid the squarest egg , at last , with patience and enterprise , one would produce a breed of fowls that laid only square eggs .
Macabre, acid and very funny, Saki's work drives a knife into the upper crust of English Edwardian life. Here are the effete and dashing heroes, Reginald, Clovis and Comus Bassington,...
These 37 stories have been chosen from the complete omnibus volume of Saki's short stories published between 1904 and 1923.
Tales by Saki
The buttoned-up world of the British upper classes is exploded by the brilliance, wit and audacity of Saki's bomb-like stories.
A beautifully jacketed hardcover selection of 53 darkly witty, whimsical, and macabre short stories by an acknowledged master of the form. Saki's dazzling tales manage the remarkable feat of being anarchic and urbane at the same time.
The Complete Works of Saki
Contains the best of Saki's short stories.
Contains the best of Saki's short stories, a biography by his sister and an introduction.
Although Saki has no known grave and no archive of personal information, his legacy is – excluding the few serialised sketches he wrote for various papers which were not later collected and published in volume form (notably The Not-So ...