ساکی

Saki (H. H. Munro)

1870–1916آکیاب، برمهداستان کوتاهبا ترجمه‌ی فارسی

نویسنده‌ی بریتانیایی، استاد طنزِ سیاه و داستانِ کوتاهِ نیش‌دار. با نام مستعارِ «ساکی» می‌نوشت. در جنگ جهانی اول کشته شد. داستان‌هایش ـ مانند «پنجره‌ی باز» و «توبرموری» ـ نقدِ گزنده‌ی طبقه‌ی متوسطِ ادواردیِ انگلستان است.

داستان‌ها۲

The Open Window / پنجره‌ی باز #oxford

“My aunt will be down presently, Mr. Nuttel,” said a very self-possessed young lady of fifteen; “in the meantime you must try and put up with me.”

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The Lumber-Room / اتاقِ خرت‌و‌پرت #oxford

The children were to be driven, as a special treat, to the sands at Jagborough. Nicholas was not to be of the party; he was in disgrace. Only that morning he had refused to eat his wholesome bread-and-milk on the seemingly frivolous ground that there was a frog in it. Older and wiser and better people had told him that there could not possibly be a frog in his bread-and-milk and that he was not to talk nonsense; he continued, nevertheless, to talk what seemed the veriest nonsense, and described with much detail the colouration and markings of the alleged frog. The dramatic part of the incident was that there really was a frog in Nicholas’ basin of bread-and-milk; he had put it there himself, so he felt entitled to know something about it. The sin of taking a frog from the garden and putting it into a bowl of wholesome bread-and-milk was enlarged on at great length, but the fact that stood out clearest in the whole affair, as it presented itself to the mind of Nicholas, was that the older, wiser, and better people had been proved to be profoundly in error in matters about which they had expressed the utmost assurance.

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