Reginald in Russia: and Other Sketches

Written by Saki

Narrated by Roy Macready

“Reginald in Russia and other sketches” was published in 1910 and was the second of Saki's collections of short stories following “Reginald” (1904). It consists of 15 stories or “sketches” as the author calls them and contains two of his most famous tales “Gabriel Ernest” and “The Reticence of Lady Anne.” The stories are:

Reginald in Russia
The Reticence of Lady Anne
The Lost Sanjak
The Sex that Doesn't Shop
The Blood-Feud of Toad-Water
A Young Turkish Catastrophe
Judkin of the Parcels
Gabriel Ernest
The Saint and the Goblin
The Soul of Laploshka
The Bag
The Strategist
Cross Currents
The Baker's Dozen (A Playlet)
The Mouse

• Language: English
• Publisher: Big Happy Family
• Release date: Jan 4, 2019
• ISBN: 9781094249780

Saki

Saki (1870-1916) was the pen name of British novelist and short story writer Hector Hugh Munro. Born in British Burma, Munro was the son of Inspector General Charles Augustus Munro of the Indian Imperial Police and his wife Mary Frances Mercer. Following his mother’s death from a tragic accident in 1872, Munro was sent to live in England with his paternal grandmother. In 1893, he returned to Burma to work for the Indian Imperial Police but was forced to resign in just over a year due to serious illness. He moved to London in 1896 to pursue a career as a writer. He found some success as a journalist and soon published The Rise of the Russian Empire (1900), a work of history. Emboldened, he began writing stories and novels, earning praise for Reginald (1904), a short story collection, and When William Came (1913), an invasion novel. Known for his keen wit and satirical outlook on Edwardian life, Munro was considered a master literary craftsman in his time. A gay man, he was forced to conceal his sexual identity in order to avoid criminal prosecution. At 43 years of age, he enlisted in the British cavalry and went to France to fight in the Great War. He was killed by a German sniper at the Battle of the Ancre.