Saki

Von 1973 bis 1990 strahlte Sender Freies Berlin (SFB) die beliebte Hörfunksendung "Nur für starke Nerven" (ab 1987 unter dem Namen...

Perennial classics, masterfully narrated: "The Open Window", "The Image of the Lost Soul", "Sredni Vashtar"....

This classic short story from Saki embraces the notion that each of us need others and that the joy we find is often in the seeking and finding of another....

Framton Nuttle moves to the country to improve his health. His sister insists that he get to know his neighbors....

Over 20 hours of the best humorous stories ever written....

There are 29 stories in this collection, each one exquisitely crafted, totally vicious and very, very funny....

The Penance is an edgy and at times horrifying tale about a normally amiable man who has killed the cat belonging to his neighbour's children....

'The Lost Sanjak' is the last-minute account by a condemned man, speaking to the prison chaplain, telling the astounding story of how he came to be condemned....

Five brilliant classic short stories which feature tigers....

Here is a collection of wonderful classic short stories by such great authors as Saki, G.K. Chesterton, Edgar Wallace and O. Henry....

Saki was the pen name of Hector Hugh Munro, a British writer, whose witty and sometimes macabre stories satirized Edwardian society and culture....

Edwardian satirist Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916), who wrote under the pseudonym “Saki” tells the story of an unusual three-way domestic dispute....

Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage....

The Interlopers is the story of two sworn enemies who find themselves trapped and injured under a fallen tree in a forest at night....

Unknowingly, a man arrives on the anniversary of the “Great Tragedy” that led to his host having her large French window wide open onto the lawn on an October afternoon....

A classic collection of short stories to thrill and delight. Watch out for the twist in the tale....

A collection of wonderful classic short stories by great authors such as Saki, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield and Kate Chopin....

Saki was the pen name of Hector Hugh Munro, a British writer, whose witty and sometimes macabre stories satirized Edwardian society and culture....

The name H H Munro is obscured beneath the literary mantle of his nom de plume; Saki. A writer of his times, the stories perfectly portray society’s whims and tastes in a delicate yet at times, barbed humour. A divine wit who conjured words into quite extraordinary works.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.