The Complete Short Stories
Author: Saki
ISBN: 9780141184494
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2001
Pages: 576
Dimensions: 199mm x 130mm x 28mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
In these macabre, acid and very funny short stories, Saki drives a knife into the upper crust of English Edwardian life. Here we meet in particular two of his most brilliant creations, the self-possessed Clovis and the vain and supremely stylish Reginald. There is tea on the lawn, the smell of gunshot , the tinkle of the caviar fork and beneath it all the half-seen, half-felt menace lying beneath the polished surface of society.
ISBN: 9780141184494
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2001
Pages: 576
Dimensions: 199mm x 130mm x 28mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
In these macabre, acid and very funny short stories, Saki drives a knife into the upper crust of English Edwardian life. Here we meet in particular two of his most brilliant creations, the self-possessed Clovis and the vain and supremely stylish Reginald. There is tea on the lawn, the smell of gunshot , the tinkle of the caviar fork and beneath it all the half-seen, half-felt menace lying beneath the polished surface of society.
