The Complete Short Stories of Saki (Paperback)

Saki (author)

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Paperback 704 Pages
Published: 10/11/2016

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Synopsis

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.

Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9781784871918
Number of pages: 704
Weight: 505 g
Dimensions: 199 x 131 x 36 mm

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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