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Hector Hugh Munro, better known by the pen name Saki, and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture.
Revealing the dangers of giving previously dumb animals the power of speech. Especially cats.
Alethia Debchance, raised on a strict diet of romance novels, leaves home for the first time to visit her distant cousin Robert, an aspiring
When an wholly unsuitable man tries to aquire invitations to an aunt's picnic, the task of putting him off is left to Clovis.
The Stossens encounter more problems than expected when they try and crash a garden party through an apparently empty paddock.
The government's success in a by-election becomes dependant on the acquittal of an obviously guilty man.
A man becomes obsessed with the idea that owners might grow to resemble their pets. Then someone buys him a monkey.
Boredom leads a rector into temptation following his move to a country parish.
Jocantha decides to share her happiness with the less fortunate through a spot of afternoon philanthropy.
A Wanderer and a Merchant argue over the downsides to modern war.
In the window of a dismal 'Toy Emporium' a particularly horrible doll in peach-coloured velvet with leopard-skin accessories fires the imagi
The great king Hkrikros - a devout worshiper of the sacred and esteemed serpants - depairs as his favourite nephew begins to show signs of C
A woman tells of a particularly stressful experience involving a visiting bishop, a flood and a hungry leopard.
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