A wonderfully collection of witty stories from the heyday of colonial Britain. Stephen Fry actually did a much better reading of these than I possibly ever could... Fry writes about Saki: “Saki 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. Saki is like a perfect martini but with absinthe stirred in…heady, delicious and dangerous. Enjoy!”