The macabre and the hilarious are blended in these unforgettable stories by the one and only Saki. Discover him in this complete edition of all his short stories
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. Although he was beyond the age of conscription, and although he was offered an officer's commission, Saki joined the army as an ordinary trooper. He was killed in 1916 in France by a German sniper.
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 alone
*Independent*
Saki writes like an enemy. Society has bored him to the point of
murder. Our laughter is only a note or two short of a scream of
fear
*V. S. Pritchett*
Saki's stories are highly relevant to any society in which
convention is confused with morality, and all societies confuse
convention with morality, so he'll always be relevant
*Will Self*
Saki remains, from a distance of a hundred years, just about the
sharpest, cruellest, funniest and most elegant short story writer
in our language... Saki is like a perfect martini but with absinthe
stirred in...heady, delicious and dangerous. Enjoy
*Stephen Fry*
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