The Collected short Stories of Saki

Saki is perhaps the most graceful spokesman for Englands Golden Afternoon - the slow and peaceful years before the First World War. Although like so many of his generation he died tragically young in action on the Western Front his reputation as a writer continued to grow long after his death. The stories are humorous satiric supernatural and macabre highly individual full of eccentric wit and unconventional situations. With his great gift as a social satirist of his contemporaryupper-class Edwardian world Saki is one of the few undisputed English masters of the short story.