The unrest-cure and other stories

The whimsical, macabre tales of British writer H. H. Munro, better known as Saki, skewer the banality and hypocrisy of polite English society between the end of the Victorian era and the beginning of World War I. Saki's heroes are enfants terribles who marshal their considerable wit and imagination against the cruelty and fatuousness of a decorous and doomed world.