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The Short Stories of Saki: 65 of Saki's Most Popular Tales
Written by Hector Hugh Munro and Saki
Narrated by Cathy Dobson
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Sixty-five short stories by the master storyteller, Saki:
'Esme', 'The Match-Maker', 'Tobermory', 'Mrs. Packletide's Tiger', 'The Stampeding of Lady Bastable', 'The Background', 'Hermann the Irascible', 'The Unrest-Cure', 'The Jesting of Arlington Stringham', 'Sredni Vashtar', 'Adrian The Chaplet', 'The Quest', 'Wratislav', 'The Easter Egg', 'Filboid Studge', 'The Music on the Hill 'The Story of St. Vespaluus', 'The Way to the Dairy', 'The Peace Offering', 'The Peace of Mowsle Barton', 'The Talking-out of Tarrington', 'The Hounds of Fate', 'The Recessional', 'A Matter of Sentiment', 'The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope', 'Ministers of Grace', 'The Remoulding of Groby Lington', 'The She-Wolf', 'Laura', 'The Boar Pig', 'The Brogue', 'The Hen', 'The Open Window', 'The Treasure Ship', 'The Cobweb', 'The Lull', 'The Unkindest Blow', 'The Romancers', 'The Schartz-Metterklume Method', 'The Seventh Pullet', 'The Blind Spot', 'Dusk', 'A Touch Of Realism', 'Cousin Teresa', 'The Yarkand Manner', 'The Byzantine Omelette', 'The Feast Of Nemesis', 'The Dreamer', 'The Quince Tree', 'The Forbidden Buzzards', 'The Stake', 'Clovis On Parental Responsibilities', 'A Holiday Task', 'The Stalled Ox', 'The Story Teller', 'A Defensive Diamond', 'The Elk', 'Down Pens', 'The Name Day', 'The Lumber Room', 'Fur', 'The Philanthropist And The Happy Cat', 'On Approval', 'The Mouse'.
'Esme', 'The Match-Maker', 'Tobermory', 'Mrs. Packletide's Tiger', 'The Stampeding of Lady Bastable', 'The Background', 'Hermann the Irascible', 'The Unrest-Cure', 'The Jesting of Arlington Stringham', 'Sredni Vashtar', 'Adrian The Chaplet', 'The Quest', 'Wratislav', 'The Easter Egg', 'Filboid Studge', 'The Music on the Hill 'The Story of St. Vespaluus', 'The Way to the Dairy', 'The Peace Offering', 'The Peace of Mowsle Barton', 'The Talking-out of Tarrington', 'The Hounds of Fate', 'The Recessional', 'A Matter of Sentiment', 'The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope', 'Ministers of Grace', 'The Remoulding of Groby Lington', 'The She-Wolf', 'Laura', 'The Boar Pig', 'The Brogue', 'The Hen', 'The Open Window', 'The Treasure Ship', 'The Cobweb', 'The Lull', 'The Unkindest Blow', 'The Romancers', 'The Schartz-Metterklume Method', 'The Seventh Pullet', 'The Blind Spot', 'Dusk', 'A Touch Of Realism', 'Cousin Teresa', 'The Yarkand Manner', 'The Byzantine Omelette', 'The Feast Of Nemesis', 'The Dreamer', 'The Quince Tree', 'The Forbidden Buzzards', 'The Stake', 'Clovis On Parental Responsibilities', 'A Holiday Task', 'The Stalled Ox', 'The Story Teller', 'A Defensive Diamond', 'The Elk', 'Down Pens', 'The Name Day', 'The Lumber Room', 'Fur', 'The Philanthropist And The Happy Cat', 'On Approval', 'The Mouse'.
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Reviews for The Short Stories of Saki
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beautiful acerbic humour that brings a surprise smile. Saki can be likened to a cross between Wodehouse and Oscar Wilde although that description might be just a shade flattering. Very enjoyable.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I've read other collections of Saki, and love his droll wit and surprising twists.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Complete and utter trite.
Avoid at all costs. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I found that Saki's humor worked better for me when I read his short stories than listening to them in audio. Frederick Davidson & Nadia May did an acceptable job narrating (though Davidson was not as good as May)...
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nearly every story a delight - highly recommended entertainment!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hysterically funny with Saki's good old-fashioned dry English wit. A collection of stories with rarely a miss and most will make you laugh out loud if you share Hector Hugh Munro's sense of the ridiculous.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a really enjoyable collection of Victorian/Edwardian-era satire, the prose is wonderful and the humour bitingly apt for its time and culture. Think Oscar Wilde though not quite as adept. As window into a class system (as satirised by Wilde, by GBS -think Pygmalion, P.G. Wodehouse's – think Jeeves and Wooster) this is a witty eye-opener. There is something unfinished or under developed in some of the satires, as if the author got fed up half way through and having made his point couldn’t be bothered to polish it off; but don’t let that deter you. This will bring a wry smile to your lips – and what lovely English.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I love Saki, and this book included some very funny tales that hadn't made it into the 'best of' collections that I have read in the past, as well as a few duds.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The guy is on the same level as that of Chekov and Maugham. Almost all of his stories are full of morbid wit and sarcasm that all other Edwardian tales (think: The Little Princess) seem too stiff and wooden. His style is akin to that of aristocratic English authors, but never a difficult read like that of Dickens. Highly Highly recommended!!