You won't be sorry!

Right back 'atcha!!

Tobermory was a cat who was taught how to talk. As you may expect, Tobermory didn't give a flying fuck about human sensibilities or who he embarrassed or hurt.

The Chronicles of Clovis is good, too.

They are quite funny, in a macabre way.

Edited to add: Sorry, I forgot to mention that they are no longer under copyright. Google "stories by Saki" and you will find lots to download for free.

I've run across cats with that name but I never knew what its origin was-- now I know. (Rather embarrassing for someone who majored in English to admit!)

Thanks for the recommendations!

In my 20s, I went through a period where I read a bunch of late 19th and early 20th century literature like Arthur Conan Doyle, some Thomas Hardy, and H H Monro. I guess it made me feel like an intellectual or something.

Another good one to start with is The Open Window. Enjoy!

thru it for laughing so hard. Same when he'd try to read PG Wodehouse to us kids.

I don't know WHY I was so drawn to it-- it just jumped out at me.

Greetings back atcha, dear ailsagirl!

He was a man of his times. He wrote a short story a few years before WWI broke out in which he predicted the war, England losing, and being ruled by a German Empire which in turn was ruled by conniving Jews. At the time, many in England believed that the Jews did control Germany and were behind German belligerence.

I won't say more. Might get me into trouble.

Can't wait to get it!!

Thanks, everyone, for your comments.

I read and reread and reread that story a thousand times when I was about 12.

I'll add that to my list

Sredni Vashtar is often referred to as Saki`s/Munro's "darkest tale."

Maybe that's why it has always been my favorite

You'll LOVE both stories.

Just be careful as to whom you admit it!

It IS a classic, but Saki would never have written anything like that.