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Saki’s short-story collection turns the manners of comfortable English society into material for satire, with brief encounters that tip into absurdity. When a nervous visitor is left with a composed teenage hostess, even the niceties of a country-house call begin to feel uncertain. At a Christmas gathering, Sir Nicholas fears what the guests might do with a costume-game invitation, making the respectable household itself part of the joke. An ox eating prized chrysanthemums gives another pair room to reveal their irritation through dry, pointed banter.
