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Short Fiction
Capítulos (142)
- The Image of the Lost Soul 0:00
- Dogged 5:39
- The Blood-Feud of Toad-Water 20:41
- New Wine in Old Bottles 29:23
- Reginald 32:59
- Reginald on Christmas Presents 40:33
- The Saint and the Goblin 45:09
- Reginald on the Academy 51:14
- Reginald’s Peace Poem 56:19
- Reginald’s Choir Treat 1:00:19
- Reginald at the Theatre 1:05:20
- Reginald on House-Parties 1:10:58
- Judkin of the Parcels 1:16:35
- Reginald on Worries 1:22:02
- Reginald at the Carlton 1:27:14
- Reginald on Besetting Sins 1:35:33
- Reginald’s Drama 1:40:31
- Reginald on Tariffs 1:46:51
- Reginald’s Christmas Revel 1:52:46
- Reginald’s Rubaiyat 1:59:44
- The Innocence of Reginald 2:06:53
- Reginald in Russia 2:13:27
- The Reticence of Lady Anne 2:20:34
- A Young Turkish Catastrophe 2:27:47
- The Sex That Doesn’t Shop 2:31:51
- The Lost Sanjak 2:38:12
- The Soul of Laploshka 2:52:34
- Gabriel-Ernest 3:03:22
- The Strategist 3:19:17
- The Bag 3:28:46
- Crosscurrents 3:40:04
- The Baker’s Dozen 3:54:53
- The Mouse 4:06:36
- The Matchmaker 4:16:40
- Tobermory 4:22:31
- Hermann the Irascible 4:40:43
- Wratislav 4:47:38
- The Unrest-Cure 4:54:08
- Sredni Vashtar 5:08:42
- The Background 5:20:08
- The Quest 5:28:14
- Adrian 5:39:14
- The Jesting of Arlington Stringham 5:48:21
- The Penance 5:56:46
- The Stampeding of Lady Bastable 6:10:42
- “Ministers of Grace” 6:17:55
- Filboid Studge 6:42:27
- Esmé 6:49:25
- The Peace of Mowsle Barton 7:00:38
- The Chaplet 7:17:25
- Mrs. Packletide’s Tiger 7:26:43
- The Easter Egg 7:35:24
- The Hounds of Fate 7:45:01
- A Matter of Sentiment 8:02:50
- The Peace Offering 8:11:52
- The Recessional 8:23:35
- The Infernal Parliament 8:33:14
- The Talking-Out of Tarrington 8:41:47
- The Music on the Hill 8:48:07
- The Remoulding of Groby Lington 9:02:18
- The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope 9:21:01
- The Story of St. Vespaluus 9:39:59
- The Way to the Dairy 9:59:16
- The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh 10:14:44
- The Schartz-Metterklume Method 10:26:23
- Excepting Mrs. Pentherby 10:38:16
- The Seventh Pullet 10:50:29
- Mrs. Pendercoet’s Lost Identity 11:05:20
- The Open Window 11:10:58
- The Cobweb 11:18:41
- The Seven Cream Jugs 11:32:17
- Bertie’s Christmas Eve 11:45:15
- Quail Seed 11:57:58
- The Interlopers 12:12:06
- The Optimist 12:25:29
- The Treasure Ship 12:37:29
- The Pond 12:46:09
- The Blind Spot 12:58:13
- Dusk 13:08:33
- The Unkindest Blow 13:19:11
- The Sheep 13:29:16
- The Threat 13:41:57
- The Comments of Moung Ka 13:52:25
- The Phantom Luncheon 13:59:28
- The Yarkand Manner 14:09:32
- Laura 14:21:03
- The She-Wolf 14:32:05
- The Boar-Pig 14:47:04
- Shock Tactics 14:58:07
- The Lull 15:09:37
- The Romancers 15:21:07
- The Cupboard of the Yesterdays 15:30:38
- The Purple of the Balkan Kings 15:39:39
- The Hen 15:46:53
- A Touch of Realism 15:58:45
- The Wolves of Cernogratz 16:11:08
- The Dreamer 16:22:15
- The Quince Tree 16:31:38
- The Feast of Nemesis 16:40:01
- Cousin Teresa 16:49:21
- The Byzantine Omelette 16:59:31
- The Forbidden Buzzards 17:09:33
- The Stake 17:19:22
- Clovis on Parental Responsibilities 17:28:36
- The Brogue 17:35:29
- The Almanac 17:47:44
- A Housing Problem 17:59:26
- The Oversight 18:10:07
- The Hedgehog 18:21:24
- The Storyteller 18:33:38
- A Holiday Task 18:45:58
- Fur 18:58:04
- The Lumber Room 19:09:35
- A Sacrifice to Necessity 19:23:29
- The Elk 19:34:18
- A Defensive Diamond 19:46:42
- The Stalled Ox 19:57:30
- Canossa 20:09:18
- The Name-Day 20:18:35
- A Shot in the Dark 20:32:04
- Mark 20:43:33
- “Down Pens” 20:54:43
- The Philanthropist and the Happy Cat 21:04:02
- On Approval 21:15:27
- Hyacinth 21:28:30
- Fate 21:42:32
- The Romance of Business 21:53:35
- The Toys of Peace 21:57:51
- Louis 22:10:09
- The Bull 22:21:44
- The Occasional Garden 22:32:15
- The Mappined Life 22:42:08
- The Gala Programme 22:52:29
- Louise 23:00:05
- The Guests 23:09:15
- The East Wing 23:18:42
- Morlvera 23:32:44
- Tea 23:43:05
- A Bread and Butter Miss 23:53:16
- Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business 24:04:20
- Forewarned 24:07:38
- For the Duration of the War 24:23:33
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Saki’s name is regularly mentioned alongside O. Henry and others as being in the pantheon of short story writers. Like O. Henry, Saki’s stories were written in the first several years of the twentieth century, but Saki is known more for his sharp and sometimes scathing wit (“New Wine in Old Bottles”) rather than for surprise endings, although he was capable of that as well (“Open Window”). A journalist as well as a writer of fiction, Saki lampooned the high society of his day in his series of “Reginald” and “Clovis” stories. He could also be quite macabre, with many of his stories demonstrating the peril of wild animals (“The Interlopers”) and, surprisingly, children (“Gabriel-Ernest”). He managed to mock the retail industry in his story accompanying a Selfridges advertisement (“The Romance of Business”), although it doesn’t seem that Selfridges caught the humor.
Although best known by his pseudonym, Saki also regularly used his real name of H. H. Munro in his contributions to the newspapers that first published almost all of his stories.
This Standard Ebooks edition contains every short fiction story that Saki published.