“H.H. Munro wrote a great many light and often very funny send-ups of the stifling conventions and manners of the Edwardian age. But on the other hand, three of the first eight stories in the book involve corpses, with two of these being small children eaten by wild animals.” -Emily St. John Mandel rereads The Best of Saki
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I discovered his writings when I was 13 and impressionable. This explains a lot.
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We will be publishing a collection of Saki stories in the Spring of 2013—illustrated by Edward Gorey!
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