Dec 17, 2009

The Interlopers | What Do I Read Next?

In Frank Stockton's short story "The Lady or the Tiger’’ (1884), a princess is forced to decide whether to bestow upon her lover the fate of death or of marriage to another woman.

Giving title to Saki's 1919 collection, his short story ‘‘The Toys of Peace’’ relates a man's attempts to convince his nephews to use their new toy, a model city, as an instrument of peace rather than of war.

Saki's ‘‘The Name-Day," collected in Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914) also takes as its locale Austria-Hungary of the Hapsburg Empire. It centers around a train deserted...