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Complete Short Stories (Penguin Modern Classics)

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This ebook is based on Penguin's excellent complete edition of Saki and if you want all of his short stories this is the best version. It costs more than the other collections but is better formatted, much easier to navigate and more enjoyable to read. The Table of Contents is clearly laid out and one can easily move from one collection to another and browse within a specific collection. In the end you get what you pay for and this is absolutely worth the price.

Hector Hugh Munro, alias "Saki", exposes with sharp wit all the absurdities and hypocrisies found in the country houses and clubs of the upper classes in the 1910s. Some stories are witty, others macabre and acid because the author drives a knife into the upper crust of the English Edwardian society. And the characters of the self-possessed Clovis or the vain and stylish Reginald are simply unforgettable.