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Narrated by:
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Frederick Davidson
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Nadia May
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By:
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H. H. Munro
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- Edie Snow
- 08-12-10
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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- Jenny
- 12-28-05
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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- Chris
- 05-10-07
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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- linda
- 01-11-24
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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- G. L. Davis
- 01-09-22
Really fun satirical stories.
Most enjoyable stories and performance, combining to poke fun at the old British aristocracy.
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- Anne
- 07-09-23
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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- Adeliese Baumann
- 11-18-12
Satirical brilliance
Saki is a favorite of mine, and I often turn to these familiar tales as I would to an old photograph album of times gone by.
There are a few dark, haunting tales such as "The Image of the Lost Soul" and "The Music on the Hill," but most of the stories here are light and funny. We are introduced to social-climbing hostesses, party-crashers, kleptomaniac relatives, aristocrats with amnesia, precocious children, reticent men in trying situations, scheming shopkeepers, and hapless travelers. All sparkle with originality and humor, and May and Davidson bring each one to life.
The author's prejudices against suffragettes, labor unions, and so forth, are evident. If this offends some, recall that these things are also a part of what makes Saki so very much a man of his time and social station. In short, there is no such thing as Edwardian "political correctness," however much we'd like to believe it was all "Downton Abbey."
Saki's death at the age of 45 while fighting in World War I cut short a brilliant writing career. I often wonder what he would have had to say about the dissolution of the society he knew so well...
The only thing I would change is that this collection is missing "The Interlopers," an eerie classic. Still, this is an extensive collection. I highly recommend it to all Saki fans as most other readings are quite short by comparison, and many are not performed half as well as those you'll hear here.
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- pashopper
- 03-02-09
Wonderful collection for Saki fans
I would have given this 5 stars but for the fact that the memory of an old record from the public library I listened to as a child is hard to live up to. The narrators here are very good though. If you are not familiar with Saki writings - then this is an excellent collection for those who love the subtle wit and dry British humor that was his style (in order to appreciate it fully). Also included in this book are a few stories that were not meant to be comedic. He was a master of what he did and I enjoyed this audio very much.
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- jonathan
- 12-25-10
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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- Glen Phipps
- 11-29-03
A Poor Recording of a Brilliant Work
If you like insane humor delivered quietly and politely, then you'll love Saki. His twisted view of everyday life is as funny today as when it was written. Davidson and May give an excellent reading of these wonderful stories, it is unfortunate that they sound as if they were recorded on a Mr. Microphone in the trunk of a 1957 Buick on I-95 during rush hour. If you go for this, and you should, definitely get the best quality format your player can handle.
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