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9781853260711

Collected Short Stories of Saki

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    9781853260711

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    1853260711

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-12-01
  • Publisher: Wordsworth
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Summary

All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other peoples'. 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'

Table of Contents

REGINALD
Reginald
3(2)
Reginald on Christmas Presents
5(2)
Reginald on the Academy
7(2)
Reginald at the Theatre
9(2)
Reginald's Peace Poem
11(2)
Reginald's Choir Treat
13(2)
Reginald on Worries
15(1)
Reginald on House-Parties
16(2)
Reginald at the Carlton
18(3)
Reginald on Besetting Sins
21(2)
Reginald's Drama
23(2)
Reginald on Tariffs
25(2)
Reginald's Christmas Revel
27(2)
Reginald's Rubaiyat
29(3)
The Innocence of Reginald
32(3)
REGINALD IN RUSSIA
Reginald in Russia
35(2)
The Reticence of Lady Anne
37(3)
The Lost Sanjak
40(4)
The Sex That Doesn't Shop
44(3)
The Blood-Feud of Toad-Water
47(2)
A Young Turkish Catastrophe
49(2)
Judkin of the Parcels
51(2)
Gabriel-Ernest
53(5)
The Saint and the Goblin
58(2)
The Soul of Laploshka
60(4)
The Bag
64(4)
The Strategist
68(4)
Cross Currents
72(5)
The Baker's Dozen
77(4)
The Mouse
81(4)
THE CHRONICLES OF CLOVIS
Esme
85(4)
The Match-Maker
89(2)
Tobermory
91(6)
Mrs Packletide's Tiger
97(4)
The Stampeding of Lady Bastable
101(2)
The Background
103(3)
Hermann the Irascible -- A Story of the Great Weep
106(2)
The Unrest-Cure
108(6)
The Jesting of Arlington Stringham
114(3)
Sredni Vashtar
117(4)
Adrian
121(3)
The Chaplet
124(3)
The Quest
127(4)
Wratislav
131(2)
The Easter Egg
133(3)
Filboid Studge, the Story of a Mouse That Helped
136(3)
The Music on the Hill
139(4)
The Story of St Vespaluus
143(7)
The Way to the Dairy
150(6)
The Peace Offering
156(4)
The Peace of Mowsle Barton
160(5)
The Talking-Out of Tarrington
165(3)
The Hounds of Fate
168(6)
The Recessional
174(3)
A Matter of Sentiment
177(4)
The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope
181(7)
`Ministers of Grace'
188(8)
The Remoulding of Groby Lington
196(7)
BEASTS AND SUPER-BEASTS
The She-Wolf
203(5)
Laura
208(4)
The Boar-Pig
212(4)
The Brogue
216(4)
The Hen
220(5)
The Open Window
225(2)
The Treasure-Ship
227(3)
The Cobweb
230(5)
The Lull
235(4)
The Unkindest Blow
239(3)
The Romancers
242(4)
The Schartz-Metterklume Method
246(4)
The Seventh Pullet
250(5)
The Blind Spot
255(3)
Dusk
258(4)
A Touch of Realism
262(5)
Cousin Teresa
267(3)
The Yarkand Manner
270(4)
The Byzantine Omelette
274(4)
The Feast of Nemesis
278(3)
The Dreamer
281(4)
The Quince Tree
285(3)
The Forbidden Buzzards
288(3)
The Stake
291(3)
Clovis on Parental Responsibilities
294(3)
A Holiday Task
297(4)
The Stalled Ox
301(4)
The Story-Teller
305(5)
A Defensive Diamond
310(3)
The Elk
313(5)
`Down Pens'
318(3)
The Name-Day
321(4)
The Lumber-Room
325(5)
Fur
330(4)
The Philanthropist and the Happy Cat
334(4)
On Approval
338(5)
THE TOYS OF PEACE
The Toys of Peace
343(4)
Louise
347(4)
Tea
351(3)
The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh
354(4)
The Wolves of Cernogratz
358(4)
Louis
362(4)
The Guests
366(3)
The Penance
369(5)
The Phantom Luncheon
374(3)
A Bread and Butter Miss
377(4)
Bertie's Christmas Eve
381(5)
Forewarned
386(5)
The Interlopers
391(5)
Quail Seed
396(5)
Canossa
401(3)
The Threat
404(4)
Excepting Mrs Pentherby
408(4)
Mark
412(4)
The Hedgehog
416(4)
The Mappined Life
420(3)
Fate
423(4)
The Bull
427(4)
Morlvera
431(3)
Shock Tactics
434(5)
The Seven Cream Jugs
439(4)
The Occasional Garden
443(4)
The Sheep
447(4)
The Oversight
451(4)
Hyacinth
455(5)
The Image of the Lost Soul
460(2)
The Purple of the Balkan Kings
462(2)
The Cupboard of the Yesterdays
464(3)
For the Duration of the War
467(6)
THE SQUARE EGG
The Square Egg
473(5)
Birds on the Western Front
478(3)
The Gala Programme
481(2)
The Infernal Parliament
483(3)
The Achievement of the Cat
486(2)
The Old Town of Pskoff
488(2)
Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business
490(2)
The Comments of Moung Ka
492

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