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