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Paperback | Pages: 960 pages

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Title	:	The Complete Saki
Author	:	Saki
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 960 pages
Published	:	April 1st 1991 by Penguin Classics (first published 1976)
Categories	:	Fiction. Short Stories. Classics. Humor. Literature

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Hector Hugh Munro is perhaps the most graceful spokesman for England's "golden afternoon''--those slow and peaceful years prior to the outbreak of World War I. The good wit of bad manners, elegantly spiced with irony and deftly controlled malice, has made Saki stories small, perfect gems of the English language. Here for the first time, are the collected writings of Saki--including all of his short stories ("Reginald", "Reginald in Russia", "The Chronicles of Clovis", "Beasts and Super-Beasts" "The Toys of Peace", and "The Square Egg"), his three novels (THE UNBEARABLE BASSINGTON, WHEN WILLIAM CAME and THE WESTMINSTER ALICE), and three plays (THE DEATHTRAP, KARL-LUDWIG'S WINDOW and THE WATCHED POT. You are invited to meet once again Clovis, Reginald, the Unbearable Bassington, and the other memorable characters etched so superbly by the pen of H.H. Munro. "In all literature, he was the first to employ successfully a wildly outrageous premise in order to make a serious point. I love that. And today the best of his stories are still better than the best of just about every other writer around."--Roald Dahl. Introduction by Noel Coward.(less)

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Original Title:	The Complete Saki
ISBN:	0140184201 (ISBN13: 9780140184204)
Edition Language:	English

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One of my favorite memories involves reading Saki stories aloud to a friend while she drove her VW Beetle (the original ones, not the new type), full of all her worldly possessions, through a torrential thunderstorm outside Philadelphia. The Why of that scenario would take too long to explain, but let's say the whole day was pretty memorable.

Coldhearted brilliance.

Although the book bogged down in the middle, with some less than interesting short stories, the later stories were very amusing with enough twists to keep them from being predictable. The man had so much fun with the names of his characters and presented no end of ridiculous scenarios. Great light reading, when a short story is all your attention can manage.

Saki is like fois gras; in a small plate after careful selection and preparation by the chef, it is absolutely divine, in large doses, one rather feels like the goose undergoing gavage instead. As the above proves, it's quite hard to be epigrammatic. Saki is the master of the epigrammatic short story. What I find rather interesting is how relatively obscure he is compared with Wilde, Coward and Wodehouse, all writers who satirized the aristocratic and upper middle classes of England. I chalk it

Originally published on my blog here between February and October 2001.ReginaldMonro's first collection of short stories is itself extremely short; twenty or so in under forty pages in this edition. Most of them are not really stories, but little anecdotes, providing context for a witty remark from effete, advanced and cynical Reginald. These include what is probably Saki's most famous phrase: "She was a good cook, as cooks go, and as cooks go, she went."The purpose of these vignettes is to

Conniving countesses croqueting in tea gardens. Fox hunting in South Staffordshire with men of vague Teutonic complexion. Missing aunts, lugubrious uncles, and beasts of a great variety. 944 pages of luxurious Edwardian prose.

Originally published on my blog here between February and October 2001.ReginaldMonro's first collection of short stories is itself extremely short; twenty or so in under forty pages in this edition. Most of them are not really stories, but little anecdotes, providing context for a witty remark from effete, advanced and cynical Reginald. These include what is probably Saki's most famous phrase: "She was a good cook, as cooks go, and as cooks go, she went."The purpose of these vignettes is to