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Short Stories by Saki

By: H. H. Munro
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson, Nadia May
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Publisher's summary

Hector Munro, writing under the pseudonym of Saki, is justly renowned for his urbane and witty short stories. His eccentric characters, humorous dialogue and engaging domestic situations all reveal a penetrating and sometimes disturbing insight into human nature. As a quixotic tour guide, Saki leads the reader from garden party to pig sty to political convention with the ease of one who is intimately familiar with the cares and foibles of the human condition, showing us this vista of life through the well tempered lens of his gentle, British irony. In this definitive collection of stories we can browse and sightsee at our leisure, cross borders of fresh insight, admire and enjoy each whimsical tale as we journey through the imaginative landscape of a truly artful writer.
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My kind of humor

Humor is a very personal thing. I remember once giving a collection of 'The Onion' articles to someone who later returned it to me with a puzzled expression. "That wasn't funny at all," she said. So, that said, if you don't think subversive, ironic, slightly sarcastic, Monty-Pythonesque, prim-people-stuck-in-very-unpleasant-situations, prim-people-who-don't-even-realize-they're-prigs, subtle, comedy of manners kind of situations funny, then you probably may not like Saki. Otherwise, this man is a genius.

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Giggling on the subway

This is a great collection. Saki is always wonderful, and and these two readers perform perfectly. I would strongly consider audios by either of them. And if you are snickering to yourself on the train in a bad neighborhood, people will leave you alone.

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Devilishly witty

A gross (more or less) of short stories ranging from very short to extremely short. Very few duds and almost all with a dry, slyly cynical, rapier-witted twist in the final sentence. Perfect for car listening and often laugh-out-loud funny. I often rewound to listen to the same story twice just to savor Saki's way with the Queen's English.

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Frederick Davidson!

My favorite narrator really brought the stories to life. The stories were really good, I recommend to anyone who loves short stories.

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Really fun satirical stories.

Most enjoyable stories and performance, combining to poke fun at the old British aristocracy.

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Humor like P. D. Wodehouse

So glad ‘Audible’ suggested this title/ Author.
A good humorist is so rare — (much easier to write drama, perhaps)
Saki — interesting pen name!
His protagonists/ antagonists love thru universal themes. So although this was written 100+ years ago, his personalities and humor hits home.

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Excellent stories, flawed implementation

It's quite frustrating to have a collection of short stories presented out of order and with no indication of which story titles are in which segment of the audiobook. It should have been very easy to give each story its own track.

Brilliant wit. Both readers do a good job, but their styles may not be to everyone's tastes. I recommend listening to a segment before purchasing.

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Everything was great except for it's totallystupid

Saki is a singular writer, not in style but in substance. His style is still with us, with fiction writers like Hammett, Vonnegut and Palahniuk.
In substance, he and Wodehouse share a lot in a very good way. They could be cousins, but one of them drinks a lot of absinthe.
The stupid part is that's it's a book of short stories, without a table of contents or
story titles in the app display.
Please tell me if it's there and I didn't see it. All 5 stars if had been or becomes formatted better.

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and he wonderful author

a great storyteller. any creative and fantastic new author I discovered through suggestion from a friend

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Wit and wonder from the master of the ending twist

Saki never fails to delight. His wit is dry, but his cup of imagination runneth over. Though usually lighter than Oscar Wilde in tone, he has a dark side (wolves and even werewolves) that can astonish. Clovis is the uninhibited friend you cherish, and the remorseless enemy of hidebound aristos. And no children are as cunningly, cruelly true to life as those in The Story Tel!er or The Lumber Room.

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