Beasts and Super Beasts is a collection filled with precocious, somewhat bloodthirsty children, sarcastic bachelors, assorted birds, pigs, dogs, and an elk. Saki treats readers to biting wit and brilliant observations. I suggest these be read one at a time and savored.

When I was young I discovered Saki and read all his stories. Over the years, of course, one comes across a few very popular stories repeatedly. Now I've come across a wonderful podcast, The Clovis Stories by Saki which is working its way through all the Saki stories. I am now catching up with the re

A dying woman talks about reincarnation, with the certainty that she will come back—as an otter, or a dark little Nubian boy. An Englishman finds himself stranded in the middle of heavily snowed-under European countryside, wolves prowling a few feet away. A man, come to recuperate in the country, vi

Saki influenced one of my favorite humor writer, P.G. Wodehouse. Their works have different feel, but there are some similarities between the two. Both write about the British upper class in a comic way, stories where aunts wield too much power at times, and so on. The difference is that Saki is has

Çok eğlenceli ve zeki, mizah dolu bir yazar Saki. Babil kitaplığı serisinden tanımış ve dahasını da okumak istemiştim. Çok eğlenceli bir okuma sunuyor. Yazar hakkındaki Fatih Özgüven kısa yazısı da kitaba uygun olmuş, kitabın sonunda yer alması da ayrıca güzel :)