I’m delighted to announce that my edited collection of Saki’s stories will be appearing soon as a real book and in a number of electronic formats, thanks to Open Book Publishers.
The book is a follow up to my article on the genesis of The Chronicles of Clovis and contains the original periodical versions of the following stories:
- Esmé
- Tobermory
- Mrs Packletide’s Tiger
- The Background
- The Jesting of Arlington Stringham
- Adrian
- The Chaplet
- Wratislav
- Filboid Studge
- Ministers of Grace
It also includes three hitherto uncollected stories:
- Mrs Pendercoet’s Lost Identity
- The Optimist
- The Romance of Business (only recently rediscovered, as revealed on this blog)
I’ve written an introduction, setting the stories in context, and as you’d expect there are plentiful annotations as well. The volume also includes a chronology of Munro’s life, suggestions for further reading, and a list of textual variants for the Chronicles of Clovis stories.
At the minute I’m correcting the proofs, and once that’s done publication shouldn’t be too far away. I will of course post the publication date here as soon as I know it.
More details can be found here: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0365