Tobermory ' the title story of this collection is widely considered one of Saki 's finest pieces, in which a short-sighted dinner-party guest introduces a talking cat to the diners, inadvertently revealing gossip and pushing fickle characters into the limelight in the process undermining the common perceptions of grandiose and genteel high society.
From some of his earliest successes, such as Gabriel-Ernest ', The Bag ' and the Clovis stories, about a young man with an impish sense of humour, to later tales such as The Boar-Pig ', which is as bizarre as it is hilarious, and The Toys of Peace ', which he was never able to see in print, this selection contains a wealth of well-known tales with vastly different themes from reincarnation to psychological warfare and bearing every trademark token of wit with which Saki has enthralled generations of eager readers.
