Toys of Peace, The by Saki, Munro, Hector Hugh

Pubblicato il 04/19/2012 di valerio

This is the fifth collection of short stories by Saki (H.H. Munro), and was published posthumously in 1923. Even so, many of the stories are quite up to the standard of those collected earlier. (Summary by Graham Redman)

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