COMPLETE SHORT STORIES SAKI - Penguin Modern Classics

Macabre, acid and very funny, Saki's work drives a knife into the upper crust of English Edwardian life. Here are the effete and dashing heroes, Reginald, Clovis and Comus Bassington, and tea on the lawn with articulate duchesses, the smell of gunshot and the tinkle of the caviar fork, and here is the half-seen, half-felt menace of disturbing undercurrents...all in this magnificent omnibus edition. 'A master in his genre' -Naomi Lewis in the Observer 'Like Wilde and Wodehouse, Saki knew his way round clubs and country houses of the upper classes, whose absurdities and hypocrisies he exposed with razor-toothed wit...One is delighted to discover a writer with a vision of humanity shot through with a pessimism as bleak as that Swift, C