Pretty good

Personally, I enjoyed Nadia May’s reading than Frederick Davidson’s, though both are good. I’m a bit baffled by the choice of stories for such a long anthology. Some are very much of their time, and may lack appeal to a present day audience. Also, there are some strange omissions. In my book, no anthology of Saki is complete without ‘The Storyteller’ and ‘Tobermory’.

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Darkly hilarious (mostly)

These stories are great. If you’ve read any of Roald Dahl’s tales of the unexpected, this is where he got the idea from. They’re somewhat dark, ironic, twisted, and mostly very funny, although it might not be everybody’s kind of humour.

Yes, the narration is annoying, but it’s entirely the way it should be. The characters are posh edwardians, deal with it.

Clovis is such a great character, he’s like a trickster god for posh people. And Sredni Vashtar is one of my all time favourites - polecat god ftw!

The one big problem for me is the chapters, there’s about 5 or 6 stories in each chapter so it’s difficult to find the end of a story if you’re not enjoying it, but that’s no big deal. I’d advise listening to this in small doses to avoid going mad, but overall this is pretty good.

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exquisitely amusing tales

This complete collection of Saki's short stories is read delightfully, expressing all the humour, sometimes macabre, and uses the English language to its full extent to enrich the telling.

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Lady Bracknell meets the Hound of the Baskervilles

Imagine a drawing room in an Oscar Wilde play, with the atmosphere crackling with epigrams. And underneath that there is an untamed world of nature, amoral and cruel but liberated. That is the effect of Saki’s typical short stories. Anyone who enjoys The Importance of Being Ernest will enjoy the wit of Saki, although there is a quite distinctive character to his writing. Every word counts.



The stories are read alternately by a male and female reader. Their accents are highly mannered, which is completely appropriate for the material and its Edwardian upper class background (viewed highly ironically) but some may find this irritating. The author’s attitudes to trade unions and suffragettes are frankly reactionary, but this is apparent in only a few of the least typical stories.



They are very short and about six stories are included in each chapter of the audiobook.

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Saki Saki long time ...

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Wonderfully English in the traditional aristocratic sense. There are a lot of stories here and my only criticism would be that despite the wit and invention of them, there is little variation in the style and arc. It's a minor problem though.

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Wonderful

Thank you so much for this delightful reading of Saki. A joy and a delight

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Simply brilliant.

The short stories by Saki are simply wonderful. Some are sadly poignant, some mystical and macabre, most of funny. The character of Clovis deserves to be more widely known as he is a triumph of literature! Darker than Wodehouse, funnier than Wilde, sharper than Coward. Listen to one at a time or gorge on a lot in an afternoon, you are bound to enjoy it.

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brilliant !

I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this... The wit and humour... I laughed out loud many times. The narrators did an amazing job...their voices adapting to each very story .... loved it !

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Fantastic stories appalingly read.

Appaling reading.
The accents are soooo artificially upperclass they pass through normal comprehension of aristocratic accents into the incomprehensable realm of actor affectation.


Awesone stories wrecked

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