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Beasts and Super-Beasts — Saki

Beasts and Super-Beasts

Saki

  • Stories
  • Book language: English
  • 177 pages

A collection of witty, satirical short stories by Saki (H. H. Munro), published in 1914. They often blend social comedy with the supernatural and end with surprising twists. Worth listening for their dry humor and sharp observations of Edwardian society.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. BEASTS AND SUPER-BEASTS
  2. AUTHOR’S NOTE
  3. THE SHE-WOLF
  4. LAURA
  5. THE BOAR-PIG
  6. THE BROGUE
  7. THE HEN
  8. THE OPEN WINDOW
  9. THE TREASURE SHIP
  10. THE COBWEB
  11. THE LULL
  12. THE UNKINDEST BLOW
  13. THE ROMANCERS
  14. THE SCHARTZ-METTERKLUME METHOD
  15. THE SEVENTH PULLET
  16. THE BLIND SPOT
  17. DUSK
  18. A TOUCH OF REALISM
  19. COUSIN TERESA
  20. THE YARKAND MANNER
  21. THE BYZANTINE OMELETTE
  22. THE FEAST OF NEMESIS
  23. THE DREAMER
  24. THE QUINCE TREE
  25. THE FORBIDDEN BUZZARDS
  26. THE STAKE
  27. CLOVIS ON PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES
  28. A HOLIDAY TASK
  29. THE STALLED OX
  30. THE STORY-TELLER

and 9 more chapters

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