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The Toys of Peace and Other Papers
By Saki
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Createspace Independent Pub
Publication date July 15, 2015
Pages 192
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9781515058106
ISBN-10 1515058107
Dimensions 0.44 by 8.50 by 11 in.
Availability§ Publisher Out of Stock
Original list price $9.99
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: This is the last collection of short stories written by the witty British author, Hector Hugh Munro, better known by his pen names "Saki" or "H. H. Munro", compiled posthumously by his friend, Rothay Reynolds. The title story is a humorous tale of trying to indoctrinate young boys with a culture of peace rather than war, by a mother and her brother, Harvey, who give her boys "peace toys" for Easter instead of toy guns, tin soldiers, and the like. Excerpt: "A quantity of crinkly paper shavings was the first thing that met the view when the lid was removed; the most exiting toys always began like that. Harvey pushed back the top layer and drew forth a square, rather featureless building. "'It’s a fort!' exclaimed Bertie. ... "'It’s a municipal dust-bin,' said Harvey hurriedly; 'you see all the refuse and litter of a town is collected there, instead of lying about and injuring the health of the citizens.'" The boys were not impressed by such gifts as tin statues of economists, scientists, sanitary inspectors, and politicians, rather than soldiers and heroes; models of municipal buildings rather than forts; toy hoes instead of toy guns. Left to play with the new politically correct toys, the boys manage to completely thwart the plan, to the frustration of the well-meaning adults. There are 33 stories in all, plus an introduction about the life of the author written by Rothay Reynolds.

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Paperback
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from Createspace Independent Pub (January 30, 2016); titled "The Toys of Peace, and Other Papers"
9781523763221 | details & prices | 126 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.29 in. | 0.54 lbs | List price $5.99
from Createspace Independent Pub (December 23, 2015)
9781522897842 | details & prices | 166 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.38 in. | List price $16.90
About: "The Toys of Peace and Other Papers" from Hector Hugh Munro.
from Createspace Independent Pub (September 15, 2015)
9781517323288 | details & prices | 192 pages | 8.50 × 11.00 × 0.44 in. | List price $11.99
About: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
from Createspace Independent Pub (August 5, 2015)
9781515364863 | details & prices | 102 pages | 8.50 × 11.00 × 0.23 in. | List price $8.99
from Createspace Independent Pub (July 21, 2015)
9781515099703 | details & prices | 192 pages | 8.50 × 11.00 × 0.44 in. | List price $10.99
The price comparison is for this edition
from Createspace Independent Pub (July 15, 2015)
9781515058106 | details & prices | 192 pages | 8.50 × 11.00 × 0.44 in. | List price $9.99
About: This is the last collection of short stories written by the witty British author, Hector Hugh Munro, better known by his pen names "Saki" or "H.
from Createspace Independent Pub (July 17, 2014); titled "The Toys of Peace, and Other Papers"
9781500521837 | details & prices | 114 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.26 in. | List price $7.49
About: “When peace comes,” wrote an officer of the 22nd Royal Fusiliers, the regiment in which Munro was a private and in which he rose to the rank of lance-sergeant, “Saki will give us the most wonderful of all the books about the war.
from Createspace Independent Pub (July 24, 2013); titled "The Toys of Peace, and Other Papers"
9781491089064 | details & prices | 114 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.26 in. | List price $7.49
With G. K. Chesteron | from Kessinger Pub Co (May 31, 2004)
9781417922611 | details & prices | 260 pages | List price $27.95

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