THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES

Saki is perhaps the most graceful spokesman for England's 'Golden Afternoon' - the slow and peaceful years before the First World Wa r. Although, like so many of his generation, he died tragically young, in action on the Western Front, his reputation as a writer co ntinued to grow long after his death. The stories are humorous, satiric, supernatural, and macabre, highly individual, full of eccen tric wit and unconventional situations. With his great gift as a social satirist of his contemporaryupper-class Edwardian world, Sak i is one...[Read more]