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Title	:	The Complete Saki
Author	:	Saki
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 960 pages
Published	:	April 1st 1991 by Penguin Classics (first published 1976)
Categories	:	Fiction. Short Stories. Classics. Humor. Literature

The Complete Saki

Saki

Paperback | Pages: 960 pages

Rating: 4.38 | 2296 Users | 147 Reviews

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Hector Hugh Munro is perhaps the most graceful spokesman for England's "golden afternoon''--those slow and peaceful years prior to the outbreak of World War I. The good wit of bad manners, elegantly spiced with irony and deftly controlled malice, has made Saki stories small, perfect gems of the English language. Here for the first time, are the collected writings of Saki--including all of his short stories ("Reginald", "Reginald in Russia", "The Chronicles of Clovis", "Beasts and Super-Beasts" "The Toys of Peace", and "The Square Egg"), his three novels (THE UNBEARABLE BASSINGTON, WHEN WILLIAM CAME and THE WESTMINSTER ALICE), and three plays (THE DEATHTRAP, KARL-LUDWIG'S WINDOW and THE WATCHED POT. You are invited to meet once again Clovis, Reginald, the Unbearable Bassington, and the other memorable characters etched so superbly by the pen of H.H. Munro. "In all literature, he was the first to employ successfully a wildly outrageous premise in order to make a serious point. I love that. And today the best of his stories are still better than the best of just about every other writer around."--Roald Dahl. Introduction by Noel Coward.(less)

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Original Title:	The Complete Saki
ISBN:	0140184201 (ISBN13: 9780140184204)
Edition Language:	English

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If someone thinks old books are boring, reads a few stories out of this, and still thinks so, i can only conclude they are crazy person. This is ridiculously funny literature; I love Saki!

I liked the short stories better than the novels, and the general level was not high enough for me to justify giving the book five stars - but there are a lot of very enjoyable short stories included in this book.

Saki is definitely someone who should continue to be read and taught. It's been over a hundred years since most of his work has been written, yet his humor and insight are more than relevant now. I laughed out loud several times while I read through this 900+ page collection. I wrote separate reviews for the novellas/novels at the beginning of the collection. My review of When William Came is here. I was not a fan. My review of The Unbearable Bassington is here. I am a mega-fan for Bassington.I

Although the book bogged down in the middle, with some less than interesting short stories, the later stories were very amusing with enough twists to keep them from being predictable. The man had so much fun with the names of his characters and presented no end of ridiculous scenarios. Great light reading, when a short story is all your attention can manage.

B and N released a great compilation of his works last year that was very reasonably priced. Saki is like having drinks with your most sarcastic, funny, ironic friend -- you leave giggling, with your head still spinning. His stories are all about society life among the rich in England at the turn of the 20th century, and are deliciously mean. Come on, you can't always read about nice people.

Since school the stories of Saki have entertained and delighted even after several times read.

Almost every single story HH Munro ever wrote becomes an immediate favourite. His writing brings to life the mediocrity and occasional poverty of the Edwardian middle and lower classes and the ridiculous oppulence and social ineptitudes of the upper middle Edwardian classes. Always written with a dark humour, Saki has been a firm personal favourite since early childhood when at the age of 7, I was introduced to Clovis in all his cheeky glory, Conradin, the soon to be late Laura and the very late