{"product_id":"2026200013642-secondhand-the-short-stories-of-saki-h-h-munro","title":"The Short Stories Of Saki (H. H. Munro)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew writers have wielded wit as precisely and as lethally as Hector Hugh Munro, better known to the literary world as Saki — and The Short Stories of Saki gathers the full, glittering arsenal of his satirical genius into one indispensable volume. Set largely in the drawing rooms and country estates of Edwardian England, these tales chronicle a world of insufferable aunts, scheming children, and society hypocrites, all subjected to Saki's merciless — and often supernatural — sense of justice. From the mischievous Reginald to the unforgettable Clovis Sangrail, his cast of antiheroes orchestrates elaborate social revenges with the cool detachment of a master strategist, leaving victims and readers alike breathless with equal parts horror and laughter.\n\nWith an introduction by Christopher Morley, this Modern Library edition presents Saki's work in its rightful place among the great comic masters of English prose — a peer to Oscar Wilde in epigram and to Ambrose Bierce in darkness. His style is deceptively breezy, each perfectly constructed sentence concealing a barb sharp enough to draw blood. Beneath the laughter lies a profound, unsentimental portrait of a civilisation teetering on the edge of catastrophe — a portrait made all the more poignant by the knowledge that Munro himself fell on the Western Front in 1916. One question haunts every page: in a world this absurd, who truly deserves the last laugh?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203392413915,"sku":"2026200013642-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/519355cf-93ef-45b8-884a-f1a4a0cfbef5.png?v=1788148401","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200013642-secondhand-the-short-stories-of-saki-h-h-munro","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}