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    Short Stories by Saki
    Short Stories by Saki
    Short Stories by Saki
    Audiobook1 hour

    Short Stories by Saki

    Written by Hector Hugh Munro

    Narrated by Stephen Fry

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Immerse yourself in a world where the wonderful Stephen Fry reads some of the more memorable short stories of our time. A brilliant combination of reader and writer come together in these seven short stories available on digital download only.

    Stephen writes “Saki remains, from a distance of a hundred years, just about the sharpest, cruellest, funniest and most elegant short story writer in our language. Hector Hugh Monro, to give him his real name, was an English writer and journalist whose life was cut short by the Great War. His stories often oppose nature and civilisation, with the more macabre elements of nature usually rising to victory. My favourite of his stories is Sredni Vashtar, as perfect a symbolic tale of the power of adolescence as is imaginable. The triumph of imagination, sexuality and life over the repressive forces of conventionality has never been more perfectly or shockingly expressed. The excellence of Tobermory, the talking cat, of The unrest Cure and the Open Window all reveal that unique blend of Wodehousian social comedy with wicked cruelty.
    Saki is like a perfect martini but with absinthe stirred in…heady, delicious and dangerous. Enjoy” Stephen Fry 2009

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJul 2, 2009
    ISBN9780007334711
    Short Stories by Saki

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    • 4/5
      These stories are pretty funny and Stephen Frye is an excellent narrator for them.
      The flaw is in the production. The beginning of each story crowds the ending of the one before, as if the few seconds of pause between them had been cut out with a razor.

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