Stephen Fry Presents...A Selection of Short Stories Audiobook by Hector Hugh Munro

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/55/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Stephen Fry Presents...A Selection of Short Stories Author: Hector Hugh Munro Narrator: Stephen Fry Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 19 mins Language: English Release date: 07-06-09 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 49 votes Genres: Classics, World Literature Publisher's Summary: Stephen writes "Saki remains, from a distance of a hundred years, just about the sharpest, cruellest, funniest and most elegant short story writer in our language. Hector Hugh Monro, to give him his real name, was an English writer and journalist whose life was cut short by the Great War. His stories often oppose nature and civilisation, with the more macabre elements of nature usually rising to victory. My favourite of his stories is Sredni Vashtar, as perfect a symbolic tale of the power of adolescence as is imaginable. The triumph of imagination, sexuality and life over the repressive forces of conventionality has never been more perfectly or shockingly expressed. The excellence of Tobermory, the talking cat, of The unrest Cure and the Open Window all reveal that unique blend of Wodehousian social comedy with wicked cruelty. Saki is like a perfect martini but with absinthe stirred in...heady, delicious and dangerous. Enjoy". Stephen Fry 2009.