<description>“It was there, among the gooseberry bushes and beneath the medlar trees, that the temptation to the perpetration of a great literary fraud came to him.”</description>

“It was there, among the gooseberry bushes and beneath the medlar trees, that the temptation to the perpetration of a great literary fraud came to him.”

For the Duration of the War

<description>“War is a cruelly destructive thing.”</description>

“War is a cruelly destructive thing.”

The Cupboard of the Yesterdays

<description>“Luitpold Wolkenstein drank his coffee, but the flavour had somehow gone out of it.”</description>

“Luitpold Wolkenstein drank his coffee, but the flavour had somehow gone out of it.”

The Purple of the Balkan Kings

<description>“There floated up to him, through the noise and bustle of the Cathedral world, a faint heart-aching message from the prisoner in the wicker cage far below.”</description>

“There floated up to him, through the noise and bustle of the Cathedral world, a faint heart-aching message from the prisoner in the wicker cage far below.”

The Image of the Lost Soul

<description>“‘Children with Hyacinth’s temperament don’t know better as they grow older; they merely know more.’”</description>

“‘Children with Hyacinth’s temperament don’t know better as they grow older; they merely know more.’”

Hyacinth

‘We are merely trammelled by the ordinary decent conventions of civilised society.’
A series of professionally produced readings of the penultimate collection of satirical short stories by Saki (H H Munro).

The Toys of Peace and other papers, by Saki

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