Saki

A family receive a visit from a newly wealthy relation - a man they had previously shunned due to his notorious character flaw.

The opening of a large new centre for West End shopping suggests the reflection that women do not really shop, at least not in the practical sense of the word. A few days ago two lady acquaintances...

Rupert becomes increasingly hateful towards his incompetent brother-in-law to be.

When Leonard Bilsiter claims to wield enormous powers - conferred on him by a mastery of Siberian Magic - Clovis decides to set the record s

Laploshka was one of the meanest men I have ever met, but his charm made him able to get away with saying horrible things about other people. He was also resourceful and always emerged from...

Ronnie Attray is a great trial to his mother, but she has asked the Norridrums not to let him play cards when he's over there. But she lets him go there because she doesn't want to offend...

Theophil Eshley was an artist by profession. His two attempts to break away from his own tradition were signal failures. Adela Pingsford angrily said that she could not round up stray oxen, but...

Lady Bastable is - quite rightly - reluctant to look after young Clovis for a week.

A king called Hkrikros had several nephews, but the most eligible and royally-approved of all these nephews was the sixteen- year-old Vespaluus. The king decided to adopt Christianity and reason...

A small girl and a small boy were riding in a carriage. The smaller girl began to recite a story about a little girl who was good and was saved from a mad bull. A little girl called Bertha was...

Rollo arrived at Mrs. Jallatt's young people's parties severely exclusive, and faced the company with a smile that he imagined the better sort of aristocrat would have worn when mounting to the...