In most of the writings in this collection, Saki will be seen sending shivers down the spine of the reader through astonishing twist and practical jokes.Through his immortal short stories and other writings, Saki has created some of the most loved stereotypes that are almost caricaturesque in their droll exaggeration. Aunts are the unfailing tyrants in their unreasonable cruelty or downright imbecility. Families eat porridge, believe in the weather forecast and have no sense of humor, No one falls in love and if love does happen, it’s placid love between placidly lovable couples. Isms are grotesque jokes with warped punch-lines; patriotism ends up in Parisian frocks worn with an English accent, and socialism is what can get one stuck in the Turkish bath or with half-done coiffeur.If there is a voice of protest against social pretension, then it comes from derisive, incorrigible romancers, were-wolves, truth-speaking cats, children that resist oppressive adults, men that adopt the manners of their pets, and pranksters that subvert the education system. In Reginald and Clovis Saki Creates the irrepressible enfant-terrible of the Edwardian society that gets the better of their mocking cynicism.Although it’s the Edwardian society that is at the receiving end of Saki’s merciless barbs, the readers would find themselves in a milieu not completely alien from their own. And that is the secret of Saki’s magic that recreates itself in this collection. In most of the writings here, Saki will be seen sending shivers down the spine of the reader through astonishing twists and practical jokes. The devises he used as unrest-cure for the conservative social scene of his times still have the power to grab the modern readers by their collar and shake them out of the torpid adjustments they make with the society at large.
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