The Complete Short Stories of Saki

ISBN-13: 9788027376872 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str.

Saki; H. H. Munro

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Table of Contents: - 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 - 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 Chronicles of Clovis - Esmé - 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 Story of a Mouse that Helped - 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 - Beasts and Super-Beasts - The Toys of Peace and Other Papers - The Square Egg - Birds on the Western Front - The Gala Programme - The Infernal Parliament - The Achievement of the Cat - The Old Town of Pskoff - Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business - The Comments of Moung Ka - Dogged - The East Wing - The Almanac - The Pond - A Housing Problem - The Holy War - A Shot in the Dark - A Sacrifice to Necessity

O autorze

Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916), better known by the pen name Saki, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story, and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker.