Book description
Saki is perhaps the most graceful spokesman for England's 'Golden
Afternoon' - the slow and peaceful years before the First World War.
Although, like so many of his generation, he died tragically young, in
action on the Western Front, his reputation as a writer continued to
grow long after his death. The stories are humorous, satiric,
supernatural, and macabre, highly individual, full of eccentric wit and
unconventional situations. With his great gift as a social satirist of
his contemporaryupper-class Edwardian world, Saki is one of the few
undisputed English masters of the short story. Born H H Munro in Burma
in 1870, Saki was educated in England and returned to Burma to join the
police force in 1893. Returning to London in 1896, he worked for the
Westminster Gazette and was Balkans correspondent for the Morning Post
from 1902. He was killed on the Western Front during World War 1, having
volunteered for active service despite being over 40.
