The Collected Short Stories of Saki

by Saki and H H Munro (Saki) (with an introduction by Christopher Morley)

Book Overview

'All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's'. Saki (H.H. Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekhov and O Henry as a master of the short story. His extraordinary stories are a mixture of humorous satire, irony and the macabre, in which the stupidities and hypocrisy of conventional society are viciously pilloried. This collection includes Sredni Vastor and The Unrest Cure . 'We all know...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853260711
• ISBN13: 9781853260711
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.9" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Hopelessly modern wit, hopelessly feudal outlooks

What else can be said about Saki? A man caught between the death of the old way and the birthpangs of modernity - in both politics and literature - has much to satire. Saki's humor is near-pathological, glorifying the absurd and savaging the serious. Any (and all) collections of his too-brief work are to be appreciated, cherished, and most importantly, shared. If one can read "The Unrest-Cure" and not laugh out loud I fear for the future of humanity!

Classics and Understanding

H.H. Munro takes us on a journey unmatched by his predecessors, and brings us back to our reality with an understanding of a true artist.