[United States] : HarperCollins Publishers UK, 2009.

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Short stories by Saki

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Saki, 1870-1916. Stephen Fry Presents. Spoken word.

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Read by Frederick Davidson and Nadia May.

Immerse yourself in a world where the wonderful Stephen Fry reads some of the more memorable short stories of our time. A brilliant combination of reader and writer come together in these seven short stories available on digital download only. Stephen writes "Saki remains, from a distance of a hundred years, just about the sharpest, cruelest, funniest and most elegant short story writer in our language. Hector Hugh Monro, to give him his real name, was an English writer and journalist whose life was cut short by the Great War. His stories often oppose nature and civilization, with the more macabre elements of nature usually rising to victory. My favorite of his stories is Sredni Vashtar, as perfect a symbolic tale of the power of adolescence as is imaginable. The triumph of imagination, sexuality and life over the repressive forces of conventionality has never been more perfectly or shockingly expressed. The excellence of Tobermory, the talking cat, of The unrest Cure and the Open Window all reveal that unique blend of Wodehousian social comedy with wicked cruelty. Saki is like a perfect martini but with absinthe stirred in...heady, delicious and dangerous. Enjoy" Stephen Fry 2009 Immerse yourself in a world where the wonderful Stephen Fry reads some of the more memorable short stories of our time. A brilliant combination of reader and writer come together in these seven short stories.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Manners and customs -- Fiction.

Short stories, English.

Case, David,

May, Nadia,

9780007334711 (sound recording) (hoopla Audio Book)

0007334710 (sound recording) (hoopla Audio Book)

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