The Best of Saki (Everyman's Library)

Raised in Burma and Britain, Saki was a correspondent for London's Morning Post and a political satirist before he found his true calling as a short story writer. Satirical and macabre, these stories skewer pre-war British society by unleashing their irreverent heroes into its upper-class drawing rooms, where they flounce its dowager Duchesses and irascible aunts.