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Saki's (a.k.a Hector Hugh Munro) unique brand of humor has resonated with readers for over a century. Both macabre and also at times vicious, his writing nonetheless manages to perfectly capture the trivial absurdities of the Edwardian era in England. 

His subjects are almost always louche members of the upper classes - in particular his perfectly observed anti-heroes such as Clovis and Reginald - who wouldn't feel out of place in the world of P.G Wodehouse's 'Bertie Wooster'. 

The fatal flaw of hypocrisy receives particular attention in Saki's world, with vengeful justice often meted out in the most unlikely and unexpected fashion by birds, beasts and children alike. 

This collection contains both novels by Saki, all of his short story collections, and also his individual short stories the were published outside collections - in total 144 separate works (including the collection "The Square Egg and other Sketches", frequently omitted from other collections) 

The works contained in this collection are as follows: 

Novels 

When William Came 
The Unbearable Bassington 

Short stories 

Reginald 

Reginald 
Reginald on Christmas Presents 
Reginald on the Academy 
Reginald at the Theatre 
Reginald's Peace Poem 
Reginald's Choir Treat 
Reginald on Worries 
Reginald on House-Parties 
Reginald at the Carlton 
Reginald on Besetting Sins 
Reginald's Drama 
Reginald on Tariffs 
Reginald's Christmas Revel 
Reginald's Rubaiyat 
The Innocence of Reginald 

Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches 

Reginald in Russia 
The Reticence of Lady Anne 
The Lost Sanjak 
The Sex that Doesn't Shop 
The Blood-Feud of Toad-Water 
A Young-Turkish Catastrophe 
Judkin of the Parcels 
Gabriel-Ernest 
The Saint and the Goblin 
The Soul of Laploshka 
The Bag 
The Strategist 
Cross Currents 
The Baker's Dozen 
The Mouse 

The Chronicles of Clovis 

Esmé 
The Match-Maker 
Tobermory 
Mrs. Packletide's Tiger 
The Stampeding of Lady Bastable 
The Background 
Hermann the Irascible—A Story of the Great Weep 
The Unrest-Cure 
The Jesting of Arlington Stringham 
Sredni Vashtar 
Adrian 
The Chaplet 
The Quest 
Wratislav 
The Easter Egg 
Filboid Studge, the Story of a Mouse that Helped 
The Music on the Hill 
The Story of St. Vespaluus 
The Way to the Dairy 
The Peace Offering 
The Peace of Mowsle Barton 
The Talking-Out of Tarrington 
The Hounds of Fate 
The Recessional 
A Matter of Sentiment 
The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope 
"Ministers of Grace" 
The Remoulding of Groby Lington 

Beasts and Super-Beasts 

The She-Wolf 
Laura 
The Boar-Pig 
The Brogue 
The Hen 
The Open Window 
The Treasure-Ship 
The Cobweb 
The Lull 
The Unkindest Blow 
The Romancers 
The Schartz-Metterklume Method 
The Seventh Pullet 
The Blind Spot 
Dusk 
A Touch of Realism 
Cousin Teresa 
The Yarkand Manner 
The Byzantine Omelette 
The Feast of Nemesis 
The Dreamer 
The Quince Tree 
The Forbidden Buzzards 
The Stake 
Clovis on Parental Responsibilities 
A Holiday Task 
The Stalled Ox 
The Story-Teller 
A Defensive Diamond 
The Elk 
"Down Pens" 
The Name-Day 
The Lumber Room 
Fur 
The Philanthropist and the Happy Cat 
On Approval 

The Toys of Peace and Other Papers 

The Toys of Peace 
Louise 
Tea 
The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh 
The Wolves of Cernogratz 
Louis 
The Guests 
The Penance 
The Phantom Luncheon 
A Bread and Butter Miss 
Bertie's Christmas Eve 
Forewarned 
The Interlopers 
Quail Seed 
Canossa 
The Threat 
Excepting Mrs. Pentherby 
Mark 
The Hedgehog 
The Mappined Life 
Fate 
The Bull 
Morlvera 
Shock Tactics 
The Seven Cream Jugs 
The Occasional Garden 
The Sheep 
The Oversight 
Hyacinth 
The Image of the Lost Soul 
The Purple of the Balkan Kings 
The Cupboard of the Yesterdays 
For the Duration of the War 

The Square Egg and Other Sketches 

The Square Egg 
Birds on the Western Front 
The Gala Programme - An Unrecorded Episode in Roman History 
The Infernal Parliament 
The Achievement of the Cat 
The Old Town of Pskoff 
Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business

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