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Title: The Square Egg

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Title: The Square Egg Title Record # 823785
Author: Saki
Date: 1924-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: short story
Language: English
Synopsis: During the war narrator is approached by a beggar who tries to get money by telling an entertaining story to back up his plea: he says he used to make a good living from the hens he had specially bred to lay square eggs, and having handed his business over to an aunt during the war, he now needs funds to sue her and get it back. (The narrator does not believe him and the reader is given no reason to.)
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1924 The Square Egg [as by H. H. Munro]

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The Square Egg and Other Sketches, with Three Plays and Illustrations 1924-00-00 H. H. Munro John Lane, The Bodley Head  
7/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
318
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Complete Works of Saki 1976-00-00 H. H. Munro Doubleday 0-385-05373-8
$9.95?$: US dollar
xiv+
944
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
omni  
The Complete Saki 1982-00-00 H. H. Munro Penguin Books (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) 0-14-118078-1   xiv+
944
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.
omni  
The Complete Stories of Saki 1993-00-00 Saki Wordsworth Editions (Wordsworth Classics) 1-85326-071-1   594
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
omni Walter Sickert  
The Complete Saki 1998-05-01 H. H. Munro Penguin Books 0-14-018420-1
£8.99?£: UK pound
xiv+
944
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.
omni E. O. Hoppe Checkmark
Saki: The Complete Short Stories 2000-10-00 H. H. Munro Penguin Books (Penguin Classics) 0-14-118449-3
£10.99?£: UK pound
576
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll  
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