The Complete Saki: 144 Collected Novels and Short Stories
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The Complete Saki: 144 Collected Novels and Short Stories
Saki's (a.k.a Hector Hugh Munro) unique brand of humor has resonated with readers for over a century. Both macabre and also at times vicious, his writing nonetheless manages to perfectly capture the trivial absurdities of the Edwardian era in England.
His subjects are almost always louche members of the upper classes - in particular his perfectly observed anti-heroes such as Clovis and Reginald - who wouldn't feel out of place in the world of P.G Wodehouse's 'Bertie Wooster'.
The fatal flaw of hypocrisy receives particular attention in Saki's world, with vengeful justice often meted out in the most unlikely and unexpected fashion by birds, beasts and children alike.
This collection contains both novels by Saki, all of his short story collections, and also his individual short stories the were published outside collections - in total 144 separate works (including the collection "The Square Egg and other Sketches", frequently omitted from other collections)
The works contained in this collection are as follows:
Novels
When William Came The Unbearable Bassington
Short stories
Reginald
Reginald Reginald on Christmas Presents Reginald on the Academy Reginald at the Theatre Reginald's Peace Poem Reginald's Choir Treat Reginald on Worries Reginald on House-Parties Reginald at the Carlton Reginald on Besetting Sins Reginald's Drama Reginald on Tariffs Reginald's Christmas Revel Reginald's Rubaiyat The Innocence of Reginald
Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches
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 The Mouse
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 Toys of Peace and Other Papers
The Toys of Peace Louise Tea The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh The Wolves of Cernogratz Louis The Guests The Penance The Phantom Luncheon A Bread and Butter Miss Bertie's Christmas Eve Forewarned The Interlopers Quail Seed Canossa The Threat Excepting Mrs. Pentherby Mark The Hedgehog The Mappined Life Fate The Bull Morlvera Shock Tactics The Seven Cream Jugs The Occasional Garden The Sheep The Oversight Hyacinth The Image of the Lost Soul The Purple of the Balkan Kings The Cupboard of the Yesterdays For the Duration of the War
The Square Egg and Other Sketches
The Square Egg Birds on the Western Front The Gala Programme - An Unrecorded Episode in Roman History The Infernal Parliament The Achievement of the Cat The Old Town of Pskoff Clovis on the Alleged Romanc