Title: The Square Egg
Title Record # 823785
Author: Saki
Date: 1924-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: short story
Language: English
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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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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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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. |
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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 | |
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. |
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