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Step into the witty, unsettling, and delightfully ironic world of Saki (H.H. Munro), one of the sharpest voices in Edwardian literature. This classic collection gathers his most memorable and darkly humorous short stories, including The Music on the Hill, The Unrest-Cure, Gabriel-Ernest, and the widely loved The Open Window. Saki's tales are known for their unexpected twists, elegant prose, and subtle satire of British society, often exposing the absurdities behind genteel manners and upper-class conventions.

The name H H Munro is obscured beneath the literary mantle of his nom de plume; Saki. A writer of his times, the stories perfectly portray society’s whims and tastes in a delicate yet at times, barbed humour. A divine wit who conjured words into quite extraordinary works. Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. The zenith of Empire is bookended by two catastrophic wars that slaughter vast swathes of humanity. And yet authors manage to record and create fragile libraries of humanity, its talents, its dreams and increasingly its nightmares.

Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), 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, and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse.

Arts2Work Conversations is a podcast about building your dream job in the media industry, facing the challenges, acknowledging the ancestors, and becoming your true self.

IT会社員から住宅リノベデザイナーに転身した、「カラフル&モダンでポップな海外みたいにデザインフルな部屋づくり」を目指す妻・早［SAKI］に、IT系編集者・メディアサービス運営者の夫・岑［MINE］が、インタビュー。家づくりやインテリアなどの仕事のことや、暮らしにまつわる身の回りのトピックについて話します。 部屋づくりのノウハウをまとめた早の書籍『カラフル&モダンポップ 海外みたいにセンスのある部屋のつくり方』（...

10代の時にアイドルの世界で出会った３人が、30代になった今だからこそ語れるストーリー。今まで体験したこと、考えたこと、感じたことを、自分たちの言葉で紡ぐ音声コンテンツ 『たまごを割らずにオムレツは作れない”』。豊かな幸せと自由（well-being & freedom）とはなにかを探求しながら、毎週日曜日夜9時に届けていきます。（カバーアート：Makiko Tanaka）Instagram: @hello_eggshell

Die Mutter aller Gesellschaften ist der Podcast von Berlin Polyphon, das den Diskurs zu Migration verbessert.

In compiling this anthology, it was my intention to focus on stories of crime motivated by hate. Not racially, politically, or religiously motivated violence, even though these are labeled ‘hate crimes’ in contemporary media.

Die Kraft der Fantasie30 Minuten, die Deine Perspektive verändernStell Dir vor, Du wärst wie Conradin: Ein zehnjähriger Junge, gefangen in einer Welt aus Verboten und Einschränkungen. Deine einzige Zuflucht: Die Kraft Deiner Fantasie. In einem alten Geräteschuppen erschaffst Du Dir Dein eigenes Reich, wo ein geheimnisvolles Frettchen zum Gott wird und Rituale Dir Macht verleihen.

Durante una reunión a la hora del té en casa de Lady Blemley, el señor Cornelius Appin anuncia que le ha enseñado a hablar al gato Tobermory. El felino, para asombro de la concurrencia, efectivamente habla. Pero, su hazaña comienza a generar más problemas que alegrías entre los invitados.

Stell Dir vor, du bist in Stoners Lage: mittellos, am Abgrund, plötzlich die Chance, jemand anderes zu sein. Verlockend, oder? Doch dieses Doppelleben fordert seinen Tribut. Stoners Geschichte stellt die Frage: Wer sind wir wirklich, wenn wir ständig Rollen spielen? Ist es vertretbar, sich selbst zu verleugnen?

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. After a 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.

In these selections, an animal plays an important role in the action or plot of the story. The animals in these stories are real or are stand-ins for humans: Sredni Vashtar by Saki (H. H. Munro) Kholstomer, The Story of a Horse by Leo Tolstoy A Dark-Brown Dog by Stephen Crane Kashtanka by Anton Chekhov The Cat That Walked By Himself by Rudyard Kipling The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe The Fly by Katherine Mansfield The Boar-Pig by Saki (H. H. Munro) The Tiger Guest by Pu Songlbying Jackals and Arabs by Franz Kafka

Satire, Humor and Irony in some cases have been regarded as the most effective source to understand a society, the oldest form of social study. Contents: The Cop and the Anthem by O. Henry; The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry; What Stumped the Blue Jays by Mark Twain; The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain; The Toys of Peace by Saki (H. H. Munro); The Artful Hussar by Johann Peter Hebel; From The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe; The Golden Honeymoon by Ring Lardner; When I Was a Witch by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Micromegas: A Philosophical History by Voltaire.