The Collected Short Stories Of Saki (Wordsworth Classics)

by Dr Keith Carabine (Series Editor), Hector Hugh Munro (Author)

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  Paperback
  1993

  $7.26

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

  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'