The Best Short Stories

The Best Short Stories
ISBN-10
1905716427
ISBN-13
9781905716425
Category
Manners and customs
Pages
404
Language
English
Published
2008
Publisher
Collector's Library
Authors
Saki, David Stuart Davies

Description

Each volume in the Collector's Library series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and further reading list. The Afterword is by leading UK playwright, novelist and eminent Sherlockian, David Stuart Davies.

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