Saki

A glittering collection of some of the world's finest short stories....

A selection of stories to entertain for when you have a spare 10 minutes....

H.H. Munro (Saki) is one of the undisputed masters of the short story. In this complete compendium, the full gamut of his subjects and themes is experienced. His stories are imbued with humorous satire, biting irony, and often the macabre....

Classic spine-tingling tales to thrill you including Tobermory by Saki and The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe....

Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, J M Barrie, W W Jacobs and many others bring their literary heft to bear in as calculating a way as any killer could....

The inevitable is understood by each and every one of us who faces the final calling. So too are the effects on those left behind. The memories are there but the empty space, the void can never be refilled. It remains a dark, unreliable pit of loneliness....

One of the most enduring themes in literature through the ages has been the internal conflict between two sides of a single character....

Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), better known by the pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer...

A collection of some of the greatest short stories ever written including works by Kate Chopin, Franz Kafka, Saki and Katherine Mansfield....

Presented here are the favorites (including many of the adventures of Clovis): "The Open Window", "Clovis on Parental", "The Lumber-Room", "Sredni Vahtar", and more....

The delicious, biting wit of Saki's short stories satirizing Edwardian high society are some of the funniest and most delightful of exquisite literary miniatures....

Our ‘fight of flight’ response is something hardwired into the primitive part of our brain. In this volume people struggle valiantly to survive and to exist no matter the extent of the threat they face....

Sir Lulworth Quayne discusses with his nephew the threat posed by the suffragette movement in this satirical short story by Saki. This collection of...

A witty short story in which author Augustus “Mark” Mellowkent finds himself face to face with an overzealous book salesman. Mark first appeared in...

For Mr and Mrs Thackenbury it seems like there are too many holidays. They start talking about the hypocrisy behind all these holidays, such as...

Von 1973 bis 1990 strahlte Sender Freies Berlin (SFB) die beliebte Hörfunksendung "Nur für starke Nerven" (ab 1987 unter dem Namen...

A charming, heart-felt collection of Christmas stories and poems that will delight the entire family....

The Toys of Peace and Other Papers by "Saki" (H. H. Munro) is a collection of 33 "papers" or short stories, which were originally published separately in various journals and later issued in one volume in 1919, three years after the writer's death in the Great War....

Edwardian satirist Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916), who wrote under the pseudonym “Saki” tells the story of an unusual three-way domestic dispute....

The human race prides itself on being the most organised of animals. We manage the fate of all other species. All other animals bow to our control or suffer....