Saki (H.H. Munro) ranks alongside Anton Chekhov and O Henry as a master of the short story, blending humorous satire, irony and the macabre in extraordinary tales that viciously pillory the stupidities and hypocrisy of conventional society. As he observed, ‘All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren’t respectable live beyond other people’s’. This collection includes Sredni Vastor and The Unrest Cure, and offers plenty more in the same wry vein: ‘We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other married couples they sometimes live apart’
ISBN 13: 9781853260711
Author: Hector Hugh Munro
