Reginald

By Saki

Book Id: WPLBN0002952861
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File Size: 47.15 MB
Reproduction Date: 2007

Title:	Reginald
Author:	Saki
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Comedy, Short stories
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Reginald
Historic Publication Date:	1904
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Saki, B. (1904). Reginald. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

Description
Saki (December 18, 1870 - November 14, 1916) was the pen name of the British author Hector Hugh Munro. His witty, biting and occasionally odd short stories satirised Edwardian culture. Saki is considered a master of the short story and has been compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker as well as Noel Coward and Oscar Wilde (who clearly influenced Saki.) His first collection of short stories, Reginald, was published by Methuen Press in 1904 though these stories first appeared in the 'Westminster Gazette'. The stories in this collection are a foil for allowing the jaded and insider/outsider figure of Reginald to comment on some ridiculous or provincial attitude prevelant in upperclass Edwardian society, although one can easily recoginize these same attitudes in our society today. Long popular and well known, Saki's brilliant humour is as enjoyable now as it was almost a century ago. (Summary by Jason Xanthopoulos).

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Comedy, Short stories