Edition |
1st ed. |
Description |
xiv, 944 pages ; 24 cm |
Summary |
All the stories, the three novels, and the three plays of the popular English writer, who delighted in the elegant and inelegant, the mannered and ill-mannered, the trivial and privileged denizens of pre-war England and Empire. |
Contents |
Reginald: Reginald -- Reginald on Christmas Presents -- Reginald on the Academy -- Reginald at the Theater -- 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. |
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Reginald in Russia: 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. |
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The Chronicles of Clovis: Esmé -- The Match-Maker -- Tobermory -- Mrs. Packletide's Tiger -- The Stampeding of Lady Bastable -- The Background -- Herman 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. |
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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. |
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The Toys of Peace: 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. |
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The Square Egg: The Square Egg -- Birds on the Western Front -- The Gala Programme -- The Infernal Parliament -- The Achievement of the Cat -- The Old Town of Pskoff -- Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business -- The Comments of Moung Ka. |
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The Novels: The Unbearable Bassington -- When William Came -- The Westminster Alice. |
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The Plays: The Death-Trap -- Karl-Ludwig's Widow -- The Watched Pot. |
Subject |
Short stories.
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Saki, 1870-1916.
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Saki, 1870-1916 (OCoLC)fst00075979
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Short stories. (OCoLC)fst01117043
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Other Form: |
Online version: Saki, 1870-1916. Complete works of Saki. 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1976 (OCoLC)756447195 |
ISBN |
0385053738 |
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9780385053730 |
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