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The Complete Short Stories of Saki
Saki
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Description for The Complete Short Stories of Saki
Paperback. Explores the buttoned-up world of the British upper classes. This book includes stories, in which, an imaginative teenager gives a visitor the fright of his life, the ordered home of a respectable country gent is rocked to its core, and 'Laura' expresses the hope of revenge via reincarnation. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJC; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 208 x 40. Weight in Grams: 508.
The buttoned-up world of the British upper classes is exploded by the brilliance, wit and audacity of Saki's bomb-like stories. In 'The Open Window' an imaginative teenager gives a visitor the fright of his life. In 'The Unrest Cure' the ordered home of a respectable country gent is rocked to its core. And 'Laura' expresses the hope of revenge via reincarnation. For punchlines, twists, satire and pure mirth, Saki's stories are second-to-none.
The buttoned-up world of the British upper classes is exploded by the brilliance, wit and audacity of Saki's bomb-like stories. In 'The Open Window' an imaginative teenager gives a visitor the fright of his life. In 'The Unrest Cure' the ordered home of a respectable country gent is rocked to its core. And 'Laura' expresses the hope of revenge via reincarnation. For punchlines, twists, satire and pure mirth, Saki's stories are second-to-none.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
704
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784871918
SKU
V9781784871918
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About Saki
Saki is the pen name of H. H. Munro, born in 1870 in Burma and educated in England. He began his writing career as a journalist and foreign correspondent but later turned to writing fiction - predominantly short stories for which he is best-remembered - as well as one history book. He was 43 when the First World War started. ... Read more
Reviews for The Complete Short Stories of Saki
One of the funniest writers in the English language... Saki was incapable of writing a dull sentence, but the final lines of his short stories are works of art in themselves
Daily Telegraph
Read Saki, shiver, then smile. In his mixture of the exotic with the wholly English, of brazen charm with unapologetic spite, he stands ... Read more
Daily Telegraph
Read Saki, shiver, then smile. In his mixture of the exotic with the wholly English, of brazen charm with unapologetic spite, he stands ... Read more