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The Best of Saki - Volume 1

By: Saki
Narrated by: Roy Macready
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The delicious, biting wit of Saki's short stories satirizing Edwardian high society are some of the funniest and most delightful exquisite literary miniatures. In this first volume, there are 22 glittering examples.

Saki was the pen name of Hector Hugh Monro. He was born in Burma in 1870, where his father was a senior official in the Burma police. From the age of two, he lived with two maiden aunts and his grandmother in Devon and was educated in Exmouth and at the Bedford Grammar School. Later he traveled in Europe with his father. He joined the Burma police but resigned after a year because of ill health and returned to England, where he began his writing career as a journalist and short story writer for magazines and newspapers. Saki is regarded as a master of the short story.

At the start of the First World War, he refused a commission, enlisted as a private, and went to France, where, in November 1916, he was killed by a shot to the head, his last words being, "Put that bloody cigarette out."

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Saki is essential to an understanding of the 20th century development of the short story. The Unrest Cure is a devastating forecast of the Holocaust

The Blotting of the 20th

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Taki may have been incredibly clever but this came across as a bit like Jeeves and Wooster meet Harry Potter - which I still don't understand to this day.

Not one for me

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