Dusk

by Saki

In the dusk, the hour of the defeated, Norman Gortsby finds himself tricked by a young man's silly story

Genres: Short Stories, Fiction, Audiobook, Classics

Unknown Binding

About the author

British writer Hector Hugh Munro under pen name Saki published his witty and sometimes bitter short stories in collections, such as The Chronicles of Clovis (1911).

His sometimes macabre satirized Edwardian society and culture. People consider him a master and often compare him to William Sydney Porter and Dorothy Rothschild Parker. His tales feature delicately drawn characters and finely judged narratives. "The Open Window," perhaps his most famous, closes with the line, "Romance at short notice was her specialty," which thus entered the lexicon. Newspapers first and then several volumes published him as the custom of the time.

His works include
* a full-length play, The Watched Pot , in collaboration with Charles Maude;
* two one-act plays;
* a historical study, The Rise of the Russian Empire , the only book under his own name;
* a short novel, The Unbearable Bassington ;
* the episodic The Westminster Alice , a parliamentary parody of Alice in Wonderland ;
* and When William Came: A Story of London under the Hohenzollerns , an early alternate history.

Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Joseph Rudyard Kipling, influenced Munro, who in turn influenced A. A. Milne, and Pelham Grenville Wodehouse.

Reviews

[Nayra.Hassan]

الذكاء هو سرعة المحاكمة*
*و العقل هو صحة المحاكمة
عندما تشهد غروب ذكائك و ثقتك و تعاطفك في يوم واحد. .و يتطايروا امامك كرغوة الصابون؛فانت لست في يوم سعدك البتة



لم اكن اتخيل ان اشهر طريقة نصب في عصرنا الحالي؛ قديمة الي هذا الحد و تعود لاوائل القرن العشرين
كثيرا ما يختارني هؤلاء النصابين العباقرة لشئ محدد "مغفل" يرونه كلهم في وجهي

قصة ذكية ماكرة كعادة ؛قصص ساكي دوما تجعلنا نفكر الف مرة قبل ان نتذاكي او نتعاطف؛ فمن الممكن ان يتضافر سوء الحظ علينا بشكل لا تجرؤ عليه كوابيسنا

قراتها بترجمة قديمة جدا في مجموعة قصص لكبار الادباء : تدعي شهر العسل

[Aryan]

این کتاب صوتی در اپ کتابراه رایگان و ۱۰ دقیقه میباشد

طنز خیلی جالبی بود اینکه نرده فکر میکرد خیلی باهوشه ولی فریب خورده بود😅

[K. Anna Kraft]

I have arranged my thoughts on this short story into a haiku:

"The dusky hour,
It may be meant for failures,
But sees dumb luck too."

[Willow]

The young man pretending to be without any money, deceives Mr. Gortsby. the young man is indeed a swindler.

[Hannah L]

Read in German, july 22

[Kushagri]

Oh I’m reminiscing my middle and high school literature curriculum today — Dusk basically taught me that dusk is when strangers get mildly unhinged and evenings are for wandering, observing absurd people, and dodging unsolicited soap entrepreneurship.

[Katyayini Singh]

Read it ages ago. I still think about the story sometimes- that’s how good it is.

[Sdjanjua]

Unexpected ending, leaves you thinking and questioning reality. Things are not always as they seem.

[Azarudeen Abdul Haleel]

Not the end I was expecting! Saki is a master at writing short stories. One of the best.

[Steph]

Arguably the best short story I've read this year (to date?). Setting the motif of dusk as the time of the defeated and the sequence of events led to a very amusing story that left me giggling. I'm wary of giving too much detail, so just read it yourself!

Reading this story also got me curious in the life and writing of career of Saki (H.H Munro), which is an interesting story on its own. I am grateful to discover talented authors every so often.

[Zahra]

داستان خیلی جالب و سرگرم‌کننده‌ای بود. از این داستان‌ها که اولش حس باهوش بودن بهمون دست میده و قضاوت می‌کنیم، وسطش می‌فهمیم اشتباه کردیم و پشیمون میشیم، و آخرش باز می‌فهمیم ساده‌لوحی کردیم.

غروب رو از طاقچه بخونید:
https://taaghche.com/book/44542

[Arimi Reads]

Short and soapy. Quite a funny short story . I wasn't expecting this from a short to be honest but this one had me smiling at the end. A dazzle of luck and a dazzle of strange circumstances and boom you have this short story.

[Dave]

This one felt more like an O Henry story, very good!

[Hajerah Umar]

A short story worth writing.

[Yukti Joshi]

this was fun! goes from a serious, slow contemplative mood to quick cake of soap-loaded shenanigans quickly.

[s]

A fun, albeit entirely not outstanding, short story.

[Tony Ciak]

a strange short story

[Makenna]

I think the young man was a con man.

[Bri Rohrer]

Short story for situational irony

[Richard]

2.75 stars.

[Heidi]

I would like to give
this 10 stars.

Very different from most of
Saki's short stories.

I was impressed by the
realism and how well the
plot was constructed.

Absolutely one of the best short
stories I have read in my life. And
I have read very many.