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Improper Stories

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Improper Stories
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Saki
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:130
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 11
Category/GenreClassic fiction (pre c 1945)
Short stories
ISBN/Barcode 9781907970009
ClassificationsDewey:823.912
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Daunt Books
Imprint Daunt Books
Publication Date 25 November 2010
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Eighteen deliciously disturbing tales by Saki, the Edwardian master of the short story. Saki's sharp satire pierces the polite veneer of country house parties, hunting meets, and evenings round the pianola. Wild beasts stampede through the drawing room, servants suffer murderous delusions and sinister children plot revenge on their elders. These witty, macabre and sometimes bizarre stories cut through the social conventions of the Edwardian upper classes.

Author Biography

Saki, or Hector Hugh Munro, was born in 1870 in Burma, where his father was inspector general for the Burma police. After his mother's death when he was two years old, he was sent to England to be brought up by his grandmother and aunts. After schooling and a stint in the Burma police, he returned to England and started his career as a journalist, and began to write short stories that were published as Reginald (1904), Reginald in Russia (1910), The Chronicles of Clovis (1911) and Beasts and Super Beasts (1914). He also wrote two novellas: The Unbearable Bassington (1912) and When William Came (1913). When the First World War broke out, although at forty-three he was officially too old to fight, he joined the Royal Fusiliers. He was killed by a German sniper near Beaument-Hamel, France.