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Beasts and Super-Beasts

by Saki

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1914
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Read by Justin Brett, Andrew Coleman, Justin S Barrett and others · 6 h 48 min · 36 parts

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  1. The She-Wolf

    15:41

  2. Laura

    11:39

  3. The Boar-Pig

    10:49

  4. The Brogue

    11:41

  5. The Hen

    11:46

  6. The Open Window

    7:58

  7. The Treasure-Ship

    9:25

  8. The Cobweb

    13:02

  9. The Lull

    11:50

  10. The Unkindest Blow

    10:32

  11. The Romancers

    9:52

  12. The Schartz-Metterklume Method

    13:07

  13. The Seventh Pullet

    18:15

  14. The Blind Spot

    10:18

  15. Dusk

    11:38

  16. A Touch of Realism

    12:59

  17. Cousin Teresa

    11:23

  18. The Yarkand Manner

    12:10

  19. The Byzantine Omelette

    10:17

  20. The Feast of Nemesis

    9:00

  21. The Dreamer

    9:13

  22. The Quince Tree

    7:56

  23. The Forbidden Buzzards

    9:31

  24. The Stake

    8:58

  25. Clovis on Parental Responsibilities

    7:28

  26. A Holiday Task

    11:07

  27. The Stalled Ox

    12:09

  28. The Story-Teller

    13:12

  29. A Defensive Diamond

    11:23

  30. The Elk

    11:31

  31. 'Down Pens'

    8:06

  32. The Name Day

    14:22

  33. The Lumber-Room

    14:55

  34. Fur

    8:54

  35. The Philanthropist and the Happy Cat

    12:28

  36. On Approval

    14:03

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House-party conversation becomes an awkward game when Leonard Bilsiter claims to possess Siberian magic. His hostess challenges him to turn her into a wolf, while Clovis Sangrail quietly investigates the possibility of borrowing a real animal. That opening sets the tone for Saki's 1914 collection of short stories, where drawing-room confidence meets schemes that polite society has little ability to control.

Animals, supernatural suggestions and social pretensions give these comic tales their particular bite. The middle excerpt shifts to a newspaper office whose staff has gone missing, then introduces Sophie Chattel-Monkheim, a wealthy woman whose enthusiasm for redistributing money sits comfortably beside her own fortune. Saki works through dialogue and a narrator alert to the gap between what people profess and how they behave. Readers interested in brief British fiction can find here a concentrated study of vanity, fashionable opinions and the trouble caused by taking oneself too seriously.

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Saki was the pen name of Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916), a British writer born in Burma and raised in England. A journalist and satirist prized for his sharp, macabre short stories, he was killed by a sniper on the Western Front during the First World War.

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Author
Saki
First published
1914
Reading time
About 4 hours
Pages
151
Language
English
Genre
Satire
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Justin Brett, Andrew Coleman, Justin S Barrett and others