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Beasts and Super-Beasts
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Saki’s brilliant short stories of wit, cruelty, surprise, and Edwardian social satire.
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Beasts and Super-Beasts
Beasts and Super-Beasts gathers some of Saki’s sharpest tales, including stories of unruly children, polished drawing rooms, sudden reversals, and comic menace. The collection is essential for readers who enjoy elegant prose, dark humor, and perfectly timed narrative shocks.
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Saki died in 1916, and Beasts and Super-Beasts was first published in 1914, supporting the public-domain basis for this English original edition.
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Beasts and Super-Beasts
Saki
预览章节By H. H. MUNRO (“SAKI”)预览
By H. H. MUNRO (“SAKI”)
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“The Open Window,” “The Schartz-Metterklume Method,” and “Clovis on Parental Responsibilities,” originally appeared in the _Westminster Gazette_, “The Elk” in the _Bystander_, and the remaining stories in the _Morning Post_. To the Editors of these papers I am indebted for their courtesy in allowing me to reprint them.
H. H. M.
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- 01Full text
- 02By H. H. MUNRO (“SAKI”)
- 03AUTHOR’S NOTE
- 04THE SHE-WOLF
- 05LAURA
- 06THE BOAR-PIG
- 07THE BROGUE
- 08THE HEN
- 09THE OPEN WINDOW
- 10THE TREASURE SHIP
- 11THE COBWEB
- 12THE LULL
- 13THE UNKINDEST BLOW
- 14THE ROMANCERS
- 15THE SCHARTZ-METTERKLUME METHOD
- 16THE SEVENTH PULLET
- 17THE BLIND SPOT
- 18DUSK
- 19A TOUCH OF REALISM
- 20COUSIN TERESA
- 21THE YARKAND MANNER
- 22THE BYZANTINE OMELETTE
- 23THE FEAST OF NEMESIS
- 24THE DREAMER
- 25THE QUINCE TREE
- 26THE FORBIDDEN BUZZARDS
- 27THE STAKE
- 28CLOVIS ON PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- 29A HOLIDAY TASK
- 30THE STALLED OX
- 31THE STORY-TELLER
- 32A DEFENSIVE DIAMOND
- 33THE ELK
- 34“DOWN PENS”
- 35THE NAME-DAY
- 36THE LUMBER ROOM
- 37THE PHILANTHROPIST AND THE HAPPY CAT
- 38ON APPROVAL