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ReginaldPeople may say what they like about the decay of Christianity; the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die. -- Saki Saki was the pen name of British author Hector Hugh Munro, a witty, often macabre author who wrote an appreciative novel of the German conquest of England an then (in his forties, mind you!) signed up to die on the Belgian front during World War I. He's considered a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. His stories are generally short, and often memorable. If you haven't read him before, you're in for a treat. |
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The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other TalesThe Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales |
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The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other TalesThe Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales |
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Smith and the Pharaohs and Other TalesSmith and the Pharaohs and Other Tales |
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A Romance of YouthA Romance of Youth |
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The Schoolmistress and Other StoriesThe Schoolmistress and Other Stories |
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Tales of the ArgonautsTales of the Argonauts |
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The Schoolmistress and Other StoriesThe Schoolmistress and Other Stories |
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Tales of the ArgonautsTales of the Argonauts |
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The Wife and Other StoriesThis set of nine stories look at the troubles of Russian life under the czars with clinical clarity and apply razor-sharp satire to the follies of those who presume to have master cures. Self-righteous reformers, tightwad fathers and greedy sons, ambitious poor people flattering the vain and ignorant rich . . . there are few truly evil people in Chekhov's Russia, and that's part of the problem, because folly and greed are harder to admit to, let alone cure, than calculated malice. The doctor of human nature is in, and the results are seldom pretty, but often hilarious. |
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