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Christmas With Dull People by Saki
$9.99 AUD
Category: Gift
'They say (said Reginald) that there's nothing sadder than victory except defeat. If you've ever stayed with dull people during what is alleged to be the festive season, you can probably revise that saying.'These Christmas stories present Saki at his inimitable, satirical best as he addresses the most p ...Show more
Gabriel-Ernest and Other Tales by Saki
$16.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: Alma Junior Classics Ser.
An eerie and disquieting classic tale about the dark side of adolescence, plus seven other uncanny and macabre tales.
Improper Stories by Saki
$8.00 AUD
Category: Classics
Eighteen sharply satirical and deliciously disturbing tales by Saki, the Edwardian master of the short story.
Reginald's Christmas Revel by Saki
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, f ...Show more
Saki: The Complete Saki by Saki
$34.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin Ser.
The complete works of one of England's greatest Edwardian writers Saki is perhaps the most graceful spokesman for England's '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 ...Show more
Selected Stories by Saki
$29.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Ser.
A beautifully jacketed hardcover selection of 53 darkly witty, whimsical, and macabre short stories by an acknowledged master of the form. Saki's dazzling tales manage the remarkable feat of being anarchic and urbane at the same time. Studded with Wildean epigrams and featuring well-contrived plots and ...Show more
The Complete Short Stories of Saki by Saki
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
The buttoned-up world of the British upper classes is exploded by the brilliance, wit and audacity of Saki's bomb-like stories. In 'The Open Window' an imaginative teenager gives a visitor the fright of his life. In 'The Unrest Cure' the ordered home of a respectable country gent is rocked to its core. ...Show more
The Unrest-cure and Other Stories by Saki
$22.95 AUD
Category: Classics
An NYRB Classics Original The whimsical, macabre tales of British writer H. H. Munro--better known as Saki--skewer the banality and hypocrisy of polite English society between the end of the Victorian era and the beginning of World War I. Saki's heroes are enfants terribles who marshal their considerab ...Show more
Tobermory and Other Stories by Saki
$16.99 AUD
Category: Classics
'Tobermory' - the title story of this collection - is widely considered one of Saki's finest pieces, in which a short-sighted dinner-party guest introduces a talking cat to the diners, inadvertently revealing gossip and pushing fickle characters into the limelight - in the process undermining the common ...Show more
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