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Fiction · 1914

Beasts and Super-Beasts

Saki

Reading time
about 4.5 h
Length
61,738 words · 144 pages
Structure
32 chapters · 1 front-matter section
Language
English
Era
Victorian

Beasts and Super-Beasts, first published in 1914, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.

Contents

  1. Author’s Note — Epigraph
  2. The She-Wolf
  3. The Boar-Pig
  4. The Brogue
  5. The Hen
  6. The Open Window
  7. The Treasure Ship
  8. The Cobweb
  9. The Lull
  10. The Unkindest Blow
  11. The Romancers
  12. The Schartz-Metterklume Method
  13. The Seventh Pullet
  14. The Blind Spot
  15. A Touch of Realism
  16. Cousin Teresa
  17. The Yarkand Manner
  18. The Byzantine Omelette
  19. The Feast of Nemesis
  20. The Dreamer
  21. The Quince Tree
  22. The Forbidden Buzzards
  23. The Stake
  24. Clovis on Parental Responsibilities
  25. A Holiday Task
  26. The Stalled Ox
  27. The Story-Teller
  28. A Defensive Diamond
  29. The Elk
  30. The Name-Day
  31. The Lumber Room
  32. The Philanthropist and the Happy Cat
  33. On Approval

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Saki

1870–1916 · Victorian

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