Saki (H.H. Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekov and O. Henry as a master of the short story. His extraordinary stories are a mixture of humoroussatire, irony and the macabre, in which the stupidities and hypocrisy of conventional society are viciously pilloried. Among the short stories are the well known classics, Sredni Vastar and The Unrest Cure.

Saki was the pseudonym of Hector Hugh Munro. He was born in Burma in 1870, the youngest of three children. His mother died when he was an infant, so he, his brother and sister were raised in Devon by two aunts, most of whose deeply unpleasant characteristics appear in the stories. When he was twenty-three, he joined the military police in Burma (of George Orwell a generation later), following the military traditions of his family. However, recurrent attacks of malaria enforced his resignation a year later, and, after recuperating in England, he joined the Westminster Gazette in 1896 as a political sketch writer.

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

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

Fudkin of the Parcels

Gabriel-Ernest

The Saint and the Goblin

The Soul of Laplasbka

The Bag

The Strategist

Cross Currents

The Baker’s Dozen

The Mouse

THE CHRONICLES OF CLOVIS

The Match-Maker

Tobermory

Mrs Packletide’s Tiger

The Stampeding of Lady Bastable

The Background

Hermann the Irascible- A Story of the Great Weep

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

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