by Saki · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420688053
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«Alpiste para codornices» is a selection of short stories by Saki, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (160 pages, in Spanish).
Saki's stories —pseudonym of Hector Hugh Munro— portray the contradictions and hypocrisy of English high society with absurd, acerbic and often macabre humour. Beneath a light appearance, the tales in this selection carry depth and offer a corrosive view of human behaviour.
Selection and translation from English by Arturo Agüero Herranz; 2015 edition in the El libro de bolsillo - Literatura collection.
Hector Hugh Munro, popularly known by his pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirise Edwardian society and culture. He is considered to be a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, Munro himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse.
