- Publication: Short StoriesPublication Record # 274901
- Author: Saki
- Date: 1985-00-00
- ISBN: 0-460-11105-1 [978-0-460-11105-8]
- Publisher: J. M. Dent
- Pub. Series: Everyman Classics
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Price: £1.95?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP
- Pages: 250
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Format: tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
- Type: COLLECTION
- Cover: Short Stories by Peter Stuart
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Notes: Cover lists the title as "Short Stories 1" or possibly as "Saki:Short Stories 1", but there is no "1" on the title page. Both cover and title page state "Chosen by Emlyn Williams" This is the 4th printing according to the printing history on the copyright page. The first printing is listed as 1978, the others in 1980, 1982, and (this pub) 1985. There is a 1978 copyright for "preface and selection" by J, M. Dent & SonsLtd Back cover lists this as part of the "Everyman Classics" series. Cover art evidently illustrates the story "Sredni Vashtar". Credit is on the back cover.
Collection Title:
Short Stories • (1978) • collection by Saki
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- 11 • Preface (Saki: Short Stories) • (1978) • essay by Emlyn Williams
- 15 • The Romancers • non-genre • (1914) • short story by Saki
- 18 • A Holiday Task • non-genre • (1914) • short story by Saki
- 23 • The Unkindest Blow • non-genre • (1914) • short story by Saki
- 27 • The Unrest-Cure • non-genre • (1910) • short story by Saki
- 32 • The Remoulding of Groby Lington • (1911) • short story by Saki
- 39 • The Seven Cream Jugs • non-genre • (1919) • short story by Saki
- 44 • The Hounds of Fate • non-genre • (1911) • short story by Saki
- 50 • A Bread and Butter Miss • (1919) • short story by Saki
- 55 • Fur • non-genre • (1914) • short story by Saki
- 59 • The Philanthropist and the Happy Cat • non-genre • (1914) • short story by Saki
- 63 • The Easter Egg • non-genre • (1911) • short story by Saki
- 66 • Morlvera • (1919) • short story by Saki
- 70 • The Occasional Garden • non-genre • (1919) • short story by Saki
- 74 • The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope • non-genre • (1911) • short story by Saki
- 81 • The Blind Spot • non-genre • (1914) • short story by Saki
- 85 • The Reticence of Lady Anne • non-genre • (1910) • short story by Saki
- 88 • Tobermory • (1909) • short story by Saki
- 95 • The Match-Maker • non-genre • (1911) • short story by Saki
- 97 • The Yarkand Manner • non-genre • (1914) • short story by Saki
- 101 • The Byzantine Omelette • non-genre • (1914) • short story by Saki
- 105 • Gabriel-Ernest • (1909) • short story by Saki
- 112 • The Quince Tree • non-genre • (1914) • short story by Saki
- 115 • Excepting Mrs. Pentherby • non-genre • (1919) • short story by Saki
- 120 • Laura • (1914) • short story by Saki
- 124 • The Seventh Pullet • (1914) • short story by Saki
- 129 • Tea • non-genre • (1919) • short story by Saki
- 133 • The Lumber-Room • non-genre • (1914) • short story by Saki (variant of The Lumber Room)
- 138 • The Treasure-Ship • non-genre • (1914) • short story by Saki
- 142 • The Background • non-genre • (1911) • short story by Saki
- 145 • The Stalled Ox • non-genre • (1914) • short story by Saki
- 149 • The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh • non-genre • (1919) • short story by Saki
- 153 • The Interlopers • (1912) • short story by Saki
- 159 • Mrs. Packletide's Tiger • non-genre • (1911) • short story by Saki
- 162 • The Way to the Dairy • non-genre • (1911) • short story by Saki
- 168 • The Gala Programme • non-genre • (1924) • short story by Saki
- 171 • The Schartz-Metterklume Method • non-genre • (1914) • short story by Saki
- 176 • Quail Seed • non-genre • (1911) • short story by Saki
- 181 • The Open Window • (1911) • short story by Saki
- 184 • Louise • non-genre • (1919) • short story by Saki
- 187 • The Dreamer • non-genre • (1914) • short story by Saki
- 191 • Dusk • non-genre • (1914) • short story by Saki
- 195 • The Hedgehog • (1913) • short story by Saki
- 200 • The Image of the Lost Soul • (1919) • short story by Saki
- 202 • The Threat • non-genre • (1919) • short story by Saki
- 206 • The Sex That Doesn't Shop • non-genre • (1910) • short story by Saki
- 208 • Sredni Vashtar • non-genre • (1910) • short story by Saki
- 212 • The Chaplet • non-genre • (1911) • short story by Saki
- 216 • The Story of St. Vespaluus • (1911) • short story by Saki
- 223 • The Cupboard of the Yesterdays • non-genre • (1919) • short story by Saki
- 226 • The Phantom Luncheon • non-genre • (1919) • short story by Saki
- 230 • The Lull • non-genre • (1912) • short story by Saki
- 234 • The Story-Teller • (1914) • short story by Saki
- 239 • Birds on the Western Front • (1924) • short story by Saki
- 242 • The Mappined Life • non-genre • (1919) • short story by Saki
- 246 • A Defensive Diamond • non-genre • (1914) • short story by Saki
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