The Open Window

The Open Window
ISBN-10
0871292882
ISBN-13
9780871292889
Category
One-act plays
Pages
28
Language
English
Published
1964
Publisher
Dramatic Publishing
Author
James Fuller

Description

An adaptation of the short story by Saki, in which a sickly, nervous man is told by the young girl of the country house he is visiting that the garden doors are kept open because her aunt, who lost her husband and brother in a hunting accident three years before, believes that the men will return at any moment.

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