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The Complete Short Stories

H.H. Munro (Saki) is one of the undisputed masters of the short story. In this complete compendium, the full gamut of his subjects and themes is experienced. His stories are imbued with humorous satire, biting irony and often the macabre, all of which have one target: the stupidities and hypocrisies of Edwardian upper-class society.

Running Time: 22 h 05 m

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Digital ISBN:	978-1-78198-365-2
Cat. no.:	NA0502
Edited by:	Sarah Butcher
BISAC:	FIC004000
BIC:	FC
Released:	June 21

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Rupert Degas

Rupert Degas has narrated over 300 audiobooks, including titles by Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, Mervyn Peake, Bram Stoker and many more. He has received particular critical acclaim for his performances of Jupiter’s Travels and Dreaming of Jupiter by Ted Simon, Flanagan’s Run by Tom McNab, and Gerald Durrell’s memoirs A Zoo in My Luggage, The Whispering Land, Beasts in My Belfry and The Aye-Aye and I (all available on Naxos AudioBooks). He has won over 20 AudioFile Earphones Awards and has been nominated for several Audies. He was honoured with an AudioFile Golden Voice lifetime achievement award in 2022.

Rupert has also lent his voice to numerous cartoons, including Mr Bean, Robotboy and Bob the Builder and has performed in over 30 radio productions, including The Gemini Apes, The Glittering Prizes and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. He spent 18 months in the West End performing in the comedy Stones in his Pockets.

He lives in Sydney, Australia.

Titles read by Rupert Degas

Titles read by Rupert Degas: The Adventures of Brigadier Gerard (unabridged); The Aye-Aye and I (unabridged); Beasts in My Belfry (unabridged); Beau Geste (unabridged); The Canterville Ghost (unabridged); The Complete Short Stories (unabridged); Dracula’s Guest and Other Stories (unabridged); Dreaming of Jupiter (unabridged); The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (unabridged); Flanagan’s Run (abridged); Flanagan’s Run (unabridged); Gormenghast (abridged); Jupiter’s Travels (unabridged); A Long Day in a Short Life (unabridged); Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories (unabridged); Napoleon – In a Nutshell (unabridged); The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography (unabridged); Restoration (abridged); The Essential Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (selections); South (unabridged); A Tale of One January (unabridged); Titus Awakes (abridged); Titus Alone (abridged); Titus Groan (abridged); The Trial (unabridged); Walden, and Civil Disobedience (unabridged); The Whispering Land (unabridged); A Zoo in My Luggage (unabridged)

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Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award

English-Australian narrator Rupert Degas has a grand time giving voice to Saki’s (Hector Hugh Munro, 1870–1916) many tales of blustering, tyrannical aunts; mischievous children; and that most important of all English inventions – the twit. Saki was a master of light journalism and short fiction and was known for his barbed descriptions of upper-crust English life and his ingenious plot twists. Degas is especially deft at accentuating the darker and more cynical tones in some of Saki’s best-known works, such as ‘The Jesting of Arlington Stringham’, ‘The Unrest-Cure’, ‘Tobermory’, and the witty examination of reincarnation in ‘Laura’. Satirical, sly and sophisticated – listen closely, and you’ll hear why everyone from P.G. Wodehouse to Monty Python owes a huge debt of gratitude to this Edwardian comic genius.

B.P., AudioFile

Saki

The Complete Short Stories

Read by Rupert Degas

unabridged

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