Short Stories

This collection gathers the short stories H. H. Munro published as Saki in the years before 1916. Typical pieces are brief, cruel comedies set in English country houses, London drawing rooms, and invented Balkan courts: a talking cat, a boy who keeps a wild animal as a saint, a wolf at a house party, a political adventuress. Recurring figures include the bachelor Clovis and children who defeat grown-up piety. The method is epigram and sudden reversal rather than sympathy. The book is a body of independent satirical tales, not a novel and not a war memoir.

Bound in pale green cloth with a wrap-around design in dark green by Lancaster. Pale yellow-green endleaves. Page tops stained yellow. Brown or light green slipcase.