The Square Egg, and Other Sketches, by Saki

Richard Crowest
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The Square Egg, and Other Sketches, by Saki

A series of professionally produced readings of the final collection of short stories by Saki (H H Munro), who was killed on the Somme in November 1916.

  1. 23/01/2022

    The East Wing: A Tragedy in the Manner of the Discursive Dramatists

    “How well he reads our sex,” murmured Mrs Gramplain, “and yet how badly he plays bridge!”

    14min

  2. 15/12/2021

    Mrs. Pendercoet’s Lost Identity: A Tragedy of the Chelsea Arts Club Ball

    “There is one character in fiction one hears no end of, but no one has ever seen her represented in portrait or in the flesh.”

    6min

  3. 14/11/2021

    The Optimist

    “Once again Duncombe experienced the uncomfortable certainty of being face to face with a tragedy whose nature he could not guess at.”

    12min

  4. 25/02/2021

    Camels

    “The camel is old—horribly, mustily old—and it is difficult to conceive that it has ever been anything else.”

    5min

  5. 29/05/2020

    A Shot in the Dark

    “‘I laid a trap for you; I told you that I had never met Mrs. Saltpen-Jago. As a matter of fact I met her at lunch on Monday last. She is a pronounced blonde.’”

    11min

  6. 30/04/2020

    A Sacrifice to Necessity

    “‘It seems there is just one way out of the tangle. He’s inclined to be amorous.’”

    10min

  7. 31/03/2020

    A Housing Problem – The Solution of an Insoluble Dilemma

    “‘We can’t keep shifting Mr. Chermbacon backwards and forwards as though he was the regulator of an erratic clock.’”

    10min

  8. 29/02/2020

    The Almanack

    “‘As your mother says, you are a mass of selfishness.’”

    11min
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A series of professionally produced readings of the final collection of short stories by Saki (H H Munro), who was killed on the Somme in November 1916.

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