The Collected Short Stories of Saki (Wordsworth Classics)

Hector Hugh Munro

ISBN 10: 1853260711 / ISBN 13: 9781853260711

Published by Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1993

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Synopsis:

‘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 that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other married couples they sometimes live apart’

About the Author: Born in Burma in 1870, H(ector) H(ugh) Munro, or Saki, ranks alongside de Maupassant and O. Henry as a master of the short story. Written in the period between Queen Victoria's death, and his own in the trenches in France in 1916, his witty tales of the adventures of the English upper class in Edwardian England were influential on the works of P.G. Wodehouse.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Collected Short Stories of Saki (...
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publication Date: 1993
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: good