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  Saki - A Short Story Collection

  Saki Saki

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  Hector Hugh Munro, more familiarly known by his pen-name ‘Saki’ was born in what was then Akyab in British Burma on 18th December 1870. His father was an Inspector General for the Indian Imperial Police, and his mother the daughter of a Rear Admiral. 
   
  When he was 2 his mother died and he and his siblings were sent back to England to be raised by their grandmother and paternal maiden aunts in a strict, puritanical household near Barnstaple, Devon. Educated by governesses Saki used many of these women as character models for his later writing. 
   
  At 17 his father retried and returned to England and then embarked on a series of European travels with Saki and his siblings. 
   
  After a short stint working in Burma with the Indian Imperial Police Saki decided to move to London to make a living as a writer. Initially he wrote as a journalist for a number of newspapers and magazines before attempting an historical study, ‘The Rise of the Russian Empire’, whose real value lay in directing him to writing short stories instead, the first of which, ‘Dogged’, he published in 1899. 
   
  From here it was a short stab of the pen to writing political satire before in 1902 he became the foreign correspondent for The Morning Post, first in the Balkans, then Russia, Paris and back to London in 1908, where 'the agreeable life of a man of letters with a brilliant reputation awaited him.'  
   
  Collections of his short stories full of witty, mischievous and often macabre stories that satirized Edwardian society and two novels now appeared in the years up to the Great War.  At its’ outbreak he was 43 but managed to join as an ordinary trooper. More than once he returned to the battlefield when officially too sick or injured.  
   
  On 14th November 1916 Hector Hugh Munro was sheltering in crater during the Battle of the Ancre, when he was shot and killed by a German sniper. According to several sources, his last words were "Put that bloody cigarette out!" 
  1 - Saki - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  2 - The Reticence of Lady Anne by Saki 
  3 - The Open Window by Saki 
  4 - A Bread and Butter Miss by Saki 
  5 - The Story of St Vespaluus by Saki 
  6 - Esme by Saki 
  7 - Laura by Saki 
  8 - Filboid Studge, the Story of a Mouse That Helped by Saki 
  9 - The Mouse by Saki 
  10 - The Easter Egg by Saki 
  11 - The Bull by Saki 
  12 - The She-Wolf by Saki 
  13 - The Interlopers by Saki

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  Tik-Tok of Oz

  L. Frank Baum

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  Tik-Tok of Oz is the eighth Oz novel and the first to bring a girl other than Dorothy to Oz. Now, in this beautiful reproduction of the rare first edition, a whole new generation can discover the enchantment and joy that have made the Oz series such an enduring favorite."Join Tik-Tok and friends on an exciting, imaginative journey through the thrilling world of Oz, complete with hairbreadth escapes, wild puns, and mystifying magic....An enduring favorite."--School Library Journal. This lavish reproduction of Oz.

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  The Masque of the Red Death

  Edgar Allen Poe

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  Pestilence and Squalor pervade every part of society. Yet, the mighty Prospero must have his party. Enjoy this tale on the folly of parties during an epidemic!

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  Toomai of the Elephants...

  Rudyard Kipling

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  Toomai's father rides Kala Nag the elephant to catch wild elephants in the hills. Toomai comes to help and risks his life throwing a role up to one of the drivers. His father forbids him to enter the elephant enclosure again. One night he follows the elephant hunters, and is picked up by Kala Nag; he rides into the elephants' meeting place in the jungle, where they dance. On his return he is welcomed by both hunters and elephants.

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  Lying Awake (Unabridged)

  Charles Dickens

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  Lying Awake: The 'Gentleman Connected with the Press' are short stories by Charles Dickens. Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century his literary genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and scholars.

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  Christmas Stories - Tales of Joy...

  Willa Cather, Louisa May Alcott,...

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  Christmas may come but once a year but human emotions, the driving force of our characters are with us every day.   
   
  Yet, somehow these same emotions when they happen at Christmas, seem amplified, we seem more tender to their touch, their words. 
   
  Whether it’s a long-lost returning soldier wondering how best to return to the arms of his family without too great a risk of shock …….   
   
  Or a prodigal son whose taken path has driven pain into his own and others hearts…..  
   
  Or a murderer carrying out his thoughtless deed but then enmeshed in a dialogue for salvation….. 
   
  These stories reveal much about the human condition. The landscape of our lives reveals that we all have choices, and how we use those choices influences, nourishes, or decays those around us. 
   
  These stories are tidings of both joy and of terror . 
  1 - Christmas Short Stories. Tales of Joy and Terror - An Introduction  
  2 - The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree by Fyodor Dostoevsky 
  3 - The Gift of the Magi by O Henry 
  4 - What the Bells Saw and Said by Louisa May Alcott 
  5 - The Burglar's Christmas by Willa Cather 
  6 - Vanka by Anton Chekhov 
  7 - The Dead by James Joyce 
  8 - Christmas Eve in War Times by Edward Payson Roe 
  9 - Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson

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