The Complete Short Stories
A Unfinished, Fiction, Humor book. Safe to say this isn't my cup of Darjeeling, but I'm glad to say I've read Saki now....
Saki is perhaps the most graceful spokesman for England's 'Golden Afternoon' - the slow and peaceful years before the First World War. Although, like so many of his generation, he died tragically young, in action on the Western Front, his reputation as a writer continued to grow long after his death. The stories are humorous, satiric, supernatural, and macabre, highly individual, full of eccentric wit and unconventional situations. With his great gift as a social satirist of his contemporaryupper-class Edwardian world, Saki is one of the few undisputed English masters of the short story.
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Not actually reading this version, but a very old copy, one close to it. Such a fantastic writer/story-teller.....What a book - My copy ended with 'The Unbearable Bassington' Safe to say this isn't my cup of Darjeeling, but I'm glad to say I've read Saki now. It's easy to picture Downton Abbey or the pre-war part of Atonement: very pampered Englishfolk gathered in the parlor of some countryside manor, making unwitty witticisms to each other. The description of this collection says, "Saki is a social satirist... Tell me a story," said the Baroness, staring out despairingly at the rain; it was that light, apologetic sort of rain that looks as if it was going to leave off every minute and goes on for the greater part of the afternoon."What sort of story?" asked Clovis, giving his croquet mallet a valedictory shove into retirement."One just true...
