The Chronicles of Clovis - Softcover

Saki

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1505711258 ISBN 13: 9781505711257

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

Saki was the pen name of Hector Hugh Munro, a British writer known for stories that satirized Edwardian society. Saki is considered one of the greatest short story writers and is often compared to other popular writers including O. Henry.

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About the Author:

Hector Hugh Munro (1870 – 1916), better known by the pen name Saki, and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirized Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Rudyard Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward, and P. G. Wodehouse. At the start of World War I, although 43 and officially over-age, Munro refused a commission and joined 2nd King Edward's Horse as an ordinary trooper, later transferring to 22nd Battalion, the Royal Fusiliers, where he rose to the rank of lance sergeant. More than once he returned to the battlefield when officially still too sick or injured. In November 1916, when sheltering in a shell crater near Beaumont-Hamel, France, during the Battle of the Ancre he was killed by a German sniper.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1505711258
• ISBN 13: 9781505711257
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 106