Short Stories of Saki (H. H. Munro)

When William Came - Chapter 03: "THE METSKIE TSAR"

By Saki (H. H. Munro)

"I was in the early stages of my fever when I got the first inkling of what was going on," said Yeovil to the doctor, as they sat over their coffee in a recess of the big smoking-room; "just able to potter about a bit in the daytime, fighting against depression and inertia, feverish as evening came on, and delirious in the night.
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THE BAG

By Saki (H. H. Munro)

"The Major is coming in to tea," said Mrs. Hoopington to her niece. "He's just gone round to the stables with his horse. Be as bright and lively as you can; the poor man's got a fit of the glooms."
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THE WOLVES OF CERNOGRATZ

By Saki (H. H. Munro)

"Are they any old legends attached to the castle?" asked Conrad of his sister. Conrad was a prosperous Hamburg merchant, but he was the one poetically-dispositioned member of an eminently practical family. The Baroness Gruebel shrugged her plump shoulders.
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When William Came - Chapter 11: THE TEA SHOP

By Saki (H. H. Munro)

Yeovil wandered down Piccadilly that afternoon in a spirit of restlessness and expectancy. The long-awaited Aufklarung dealing with the new law of military service had not yet appeared; at any moment he might meet the hoarse-throated newsboys running along with their papers, announcing the special edition which would give the terms of the edict to the public.
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THE BULL

By Saki (H. H. Munro)

Tom Yorkfield had always regarded his half-brother, Laurence, with a lazy instinct of dislike, toned down, as years went on, to a tolerant feeling of indifference. There was nothing very tangible to dislike him for; he was just a blood-relation, with whom Tom had no single taste or interest in common, and with whom, at the same time, he had had no occasion for quarrel.
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Saki ( Hector Hugh Munro )

By Ethel M. Munro

Saki's sister, Ethel M. Munro, has written a biography of Saki that is included in a number of collections of Saki's stories. It is well worth reading, not only for the insight it gives into Saki's life and writing but also because it is extremely well written.
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