Better known by the pen name Saki, and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story,

Contents

Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914)

The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)

Reginald (1904)

The Toys of Peace, and Other Papers (1919)

The Unbearable Bassington (1913)

Reginald in Russia, and Other Sketches (1910)

When William Came (1914)

The Unbearable Bassington

Comus Bassington is described by his schoolmaster as "one of Nature's highly finished products." After leaving school he runs loose for a time in London, gets deeply in debt, and even when at the absolute end of his tether fascinates the reader with his store of spontaneous gaiety.

When William Came, subtitled A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns, is a fantasy about a future German invasion and occupation of Britain.