The Open Window | Overview
"The Open Window" is Saki's most popular short story. It was first collected in Beasts and Super-Beasts in 1914. Saki's wit is at its sharpest in this story of a spontaneous practical joke played on a visiting stranger. The practical joke recurs in many of Saki's stories, but "The Open Window" is perhaps his most successful and the best-known example of the type. In dramatizing the conflict between reality and imagination, Saki makes the point that they are more difficult to distinguish than we often realize. Not only does the unfortunate Mr. Nuttel fall victim to the joke, but so...
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