SAKI: Selected Stories (Everyman?s Library Edition) by Saki

SAKI: Selected Stories (Everyman?s Library Edition) by SakiA 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 surprise endings, his stories gleefully skewer the pompous hypocrisies of upper class Edwardian society. But they go beyond mere satire, raising dark

Brie finds herself unable to choose a side

that s exactly what I m doing what we re doing

se ha fugado

Yet they have formed a "family

but she needs a crew and the only member of her brother's construction team willing to jump ship is Wes Daniels

He s seen me at my most vulnerable

complete with its own geography

and it will be only make-believe

and the Antichrist

let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it

the Toprak children find their lives torn apart and transformed by a brutal and chilling crime

Winston can t escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching