The Complete Saki

Saki's (a.k.a Hector Hugh Munro) unique brand of humor has resonated with readers for over a century. Both macabre and also at times vicious, his writing nonetheless manages to perfectly capture the trivial absurdities of the Edwardian era in England. 


His subjects are almost always louche members of the upper classes - in particular his perfectly observed anti-heroes such as Clovis and Reginald - who wouldn't feel out of place in the world of P.G Wodehouse's 'Bertie Wooster'. 


The fatal flaw of hypocrisy receives particular attention in Saki's world, with vengeful justice often meted out in the most unlikely and unexpected fashion by birds, beasts and children alike. 


This collection contains both novels by Saki, all of his short story collections, and also his individual short stories the were published outside collections - in total 144 separate works (including the collection "The Square Egg and other Sketches", frequently omitted from other collections) 


The works contained in this collection are as follows: 


Novels 


When William Came 

The Unbearable Bassington 


Short stories 


Reginald 


Reginald 

Reginald on Christmas Presents 

Reginald on the Academy 

Reginald at the Theatre 

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 


Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches 


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 


The Chronicles of Clovis 


Esmé 

The Match-Maker 

Tobermory 

Mrs. Packletide's Tiger 

The Stampeding of Lady Bastable 

The Background 

Hermann 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 


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 


The Toys of Peace and Other Papers 


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 


The Square Egg and Other Sketches 


The Square Egg 

Birds on the Western Front 

The Gala Programme - An Unrecorded Episode in Roman History 

The Infernal Parliament 

The Achievement of the Cat 

The Old Town of Pskoff 

Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business