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Beasts and Super-Beasts

Beasts and Super-Beasts
Saki

Beasts and Super-Beasts is a collection of short stories, written by Saki and first published in 1914. The title parodies that of George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman.

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“To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.”

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"Fur"
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“Romance at short notice was her speciality.”

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"The Open Window"
Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914)

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“A beautifully constructed borsch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought.”

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"The Blind Spot"
Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914)

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“Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.”

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"The Byzantine Omelette"
Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914)

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“Cyprian was a boy who carried with him through early life the wondering look of a dreamer, the eyes of one who sees things that are not visible to ordinary mortals, and invests the commonplace things of this world with qualities unsuspected by plainer folk – the eyes of a poet or a house agent.”

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"The Dreamer"
Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914)

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“Waldo is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.”

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"The Feast of Nemesis"
Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914)

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“The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.”

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"Fur"
Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914)

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