num_pages: 734
description: 'All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, &amp; those who aren't respectable live beyond other peoples' Saki (H.H. Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekhov &amp; O Henry as a master of the short story. His extraordinary stories are a mixture of humorous satire, irony &amp; the macabre, in which the stupidities &amp; hypocrisy of conventional society are viciously pilloried. This collection includes Sredni Vastor &amp; The Unrest Cure. 'We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other married couples they sometimes live apart'
language: English
title: The Short Stories of Saki
titlecomplete: The Short Stories of Saki
genres: Classics, British Literature, Anthologies, Short Stories, Humor, Literature, Unfinished, Fiction, Horror, Modern
ratings_count: 2722
publisher: Viking Press (NY)