I'm currently re-reading "The Chronicles of Clovis" by "Saki" (H.H. Munro), and the re-reading has reminded me why he's one of my favourite authors, and one of the masters of the short story. There's a bite and a wit and a sharpness of phrase to his work which has me in fits of laughter.

Shame he died in his 30s, a victim of the 1st World War trenches.