ISBN: 9781522765738

Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916), better known by the pen name Saki and also as H H Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous, and sometimes macabre, stories satirize Edwardian so… Plus…

Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916), better known by the pen name Saki and also as H H Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous, and sometimes macabre, stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and often compared to O Henry and Dorothy Parker. Besides his short stories, which were first published in newspapers as was customary at the time, and then collected into several volumes, his other works included plays, an historical study, two short novels - one a fantasy about a German invasion of Britain - and a political parody. Munro was born in British Burma, then part of British India, the son of an Inspector General for the Indian Imperial Police. After his mother's death in 1872 he and his siblings were sent to England to be raised by their grandmother and paternal maiden aunts in a strict and puritanical household. These aunts were to become models for characters in some of Munro's stories. In 1893 he followed his father into the Indian Imperial Police and was posted to Burma but successive bouts of fever forced him to return home after only 15 months. He settled in London in 1896 and embarked on a writing career, first as a journalist for various newspapers and magazines, before publishing his first book The Rise of the Russian Empire in 1900, and entering into political parody the same year with The Westminster Alice. In 1902 he became foreign correspondent for The Morning Post, first in the Balkans then in Russia, moved on to Paris and returned to London in 1908. During this time he was contributing stories and sketches to the Westminster Gazette and the Bystander as well as The Morning Post, with his first collection of stories, Reginald, coming out in 1904. His third collection, The Chronicles of Clovis (1912), is one of his best-known works, along with Beasts and Super-Beasts, and the character of Clovis Sangrail appears in several stories in both collections. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Fiction>Fiction>Fiction, CreateSpace Publishing Core >1<

ISBN: 9781522765738

All hunting stories are the same, said Clovis; just as all Turf stories are the same, and all- My hunting story isn't a bit like any you've ever heard, said the Baroness. It happened quit… Plus…

All hunting stories are the same, said Clovis; just as all Turf stories are the same, and all- My hunting story isn't a bit like any you've ever heard, said the Baroness. It happened quite a while ago, when I was about twenty-three. I wasn't living apart from my husband then; you see, neither of us could afford to make the other a separate allowance. In spite of everything that proverbs may say, poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up. But we always hunted with different packs. All this has nothing to do with the story. We haven't arrived at the meet yet. I suppose there was a meet, said Clovis. Of course there was a meet, said the Baroness; all the usual crowd were there, especially Constance Broddle. Constance is one of those strapping florid girls that go so well with autumn scenery or Christmas decorations in church. 'I feel a presentiment that something dreadful is going to happen,' she said to me; 'am I looking pale?' She was looking about as pale as a beetroot that has suddenly heard bad news. 'You're looking nicer than usual,' I said, 'but that's so easy for you.' Before she had got the right bearings of this remark we had settled down to business; hounds had found a fox lying out in some gorse-bushes. I knew it, said Clovis, in every fox-hunting story that I've ever heard there's been a fox and some gorse-bushes. Constance and I were well mounted, continued the Baroness serenely, and we had no difficulty in keeping ourselves in the first flight, though it was a fairly stiff run. Towards the finish, however, we must have held rather too independent a line, for we lost the hounds, and found ourselves plodding aimlessly along miles away from anywhere. It was fairly exasperating, and my temper was beginning to let itself go by inches, when on pushing our way through an accommodating hedge we were gladdened by the sight of hounds in full cry in a hollow just beneath us. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Fiction>Fiction>Fiction, CreateSpace Publishing Core >1<

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[EAN: 9781522765738], Neubuch, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. This is the third collection of short stories by Saki, … Plus…

[EAN: 9781522765738], Neubuch, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. This is the third collection of short stories by Saki, following on from "Reginald" and "Reginald in Russia". Although some of the stories have characters that do not appear elsewhere in the collection, many of them are loosely centred round the young Clovis Sangrail (effectively a reincarnation of Reginald). This book has the following stories: Esme The Match-Maker Tobermory Mrs. Packletide's Tiger The Stampeding of Lady Bastable The Background Hermann the Irascible-A Story of the Great Weep The Unrest-Cure The Jesting of Arlington Stringham Sredni Vashtar Adrian The Chaplet The Quest Wratislav The Easter Egg Filboid Studge, the Story of a Mouse that Helped The Music on the Hill The Story of St. Vespaluus The Way to the Dairy The Peace Offering The Peace of Mowsle Barton The Talking-Out of Tarrington The Hounds of Fate The Recessional A Matter of Sentiment The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope "Ministers of Grace" The Remoulding of Groby Lington, Books<

ISBN: 9781522765738

Paperback, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], This is the third collection of short stories by Saki, following on from "Reginald" and "Reginald in Russia". Although some o… Plus…

Paperback, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], This is the third collection of short stories by Saki, following on from "Reginald" and "Reginald in Russia". Although some of the stories have characters that do not appear elsewhere in the collection, many of them are loosely centred round the young Clovis Sangrail (effectively a reincarnation of Reginald). This book has the following stories: Esme The Match-Maker Tobermory Mrs. Packletide's Tiger The Stampeding of Lady Bastable The Background Hermann the Irascible-A Story of the Great Weep The Unrest-Cure The Jesting of Arlington Stringham Sredni Vashtar Adrian The Chaplet The Quest Wratislav The Easter Egg Filboid Studge, the Story of a Mouse that Helped The Music on the Hill The Story of St. Vespaluus The Way to the Dairy The Peace Offering The Peace of Mowsle Barton The Talking-Out of Tarrington The Hounds of Fate The Recessional A Matter of Sentiment The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope "Ministers of Grace" The Remoulding of Groby Lington, Contemporary Fiction<

ISBN: 9781522765738

There are good things which we want to share with the world and good things which we want to keep to ourselves. The secret of our favourite restaurant, to take a case, is guarded jealousl… Plus…

There are good things which we want to share with the world and good things which we want to keep to ourselves. The secret of our favourite restaurant, to take a case, is guarded jealously from all but a few intimates; the secret, to take a contrary case, of our infallible remedy for seasickness is thrust upon every traveller we meet, even if he be no more than a casual acquaintance about to cross the Serpentine. So with our books. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Fiction>Fiction>Fiction, CreateSpace Publishing Core >1<