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Short Stories by Saki by Hector Hugh Munro
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Short Stories by Saki

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Narrator Stephen Fry

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Length 1 hour 18 minutes
Language English
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Summary

Immerse yourself in a world where the wonderful Stephen Fry reads some of the more memorable short stories of our time. A brilliant combination of reader and writer come together in these seven short stories available on digital download only.
Stephen writes โ€œSaki remains, from a distance of a hundred years, just about the sharpest, cruellest, funniest and most elegant short story writer in our language. Hector Hugh Monro, to give him his real name, was an English writer and journalist whose life was cut short by the Great War. His stories often oppose nature and civilisation, with the more macabre elements of nature usually rising to victory. My favourite of his stories is Sredni Vashtar, as perfect a symbolic tale of the power of adolescence as is imaginable. The triumph of imagination, sexuality and life over the repressive forces of conventionality has never been more perfectly or shockingly expressed. The excellence of Tobermory, the talking cat, of The unrest Cure and the Open Window all reveal that unique blend of Wodehousian social comedy with wicked cruelty.Saki is like a perfect martini but with absinthe stirred inโ€ฆheady, delicious and dangerous. Enjoyโ€ Stephen Fry 2009

Audiobook details

Narrator:
Stephen Fry

ISBN:
9780007334711

Length:
1 hour 18 minutes

Language:
English

Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers

Publication date:

Edition:
Unabridged

Libro.fm rank:
#32,477 Overall

Genre rank:
#508 in Short Stories

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โ€œStephenโ€™s voice is so full of character and emotion that he brings these stories to life. And, obviously, they are read by a Great Britain (meant in every sense of the word), so Wildeโ€™s stories are brought back where they belong and have been acceptedwith open armsโ€ โ€œNo one else could bring these stories to life like Stephen Fry. truly wonderfulโ€ Expand reviews
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