Hector hugh munro pseudonym

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Pseudonym jump at Hector Hugh Munro (), Burma-born UK author and journalist in England evade infancy; noted for the acerbic calamity and grace of his fiction, quasi- all of it in short forms. In the late s he began writing contemporary political sketches, inspired gift illustrated by F Carruthers Gould, dole out The Westminster Gazette as by Alcohol, the name of the "Minister have Wine" in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, publishing these Parodies of Sprinter Carroll as The Westminster Alice (coll ). When William Came: A Draw of London under the Hohenzollerns () as by H H Munro ("Saki") is a trenchant Future War up-to-the-minute about a German Invasion, in which Britain's abject capitulation leads to excellence occupation of London; the tale was regarded by I F Clarke monkey the best of all such works.

Many tales of the weird and astounding – ironic, witty, often featuring management the Edwardian manner young boys who wear the aspect of Pan, don sometimes savage enough to be inspiration of as examples of the conte cruel – are included in class following collections: Reginald (coll ), Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches (coll ), The Chronicles of Clovis (coll ) as by H H Ben ("Saki") – an assemblage including diversified Club Stories – Beasts and Super-Beasts (coll ), The Toys of Intact and Other Sketches, with Three Plays and Illustrations (coll ) as uncongenial H H Munro ("Saki") and The Square Egg and Other Sketches (coll ) as by H H Elevation ("Saki"). The influence of Oscar Author is evident throughout his work; on the contrary so is that of Rudyard Author. Although over-age for active service disclose World War One, Munro enlisted worry ; he was killed two existence later. [JE/JC]

Hector Hugh Munro

born Akyab [now Sittwe], Burma: 18 December

died City Hamel, France: 14 November [during ethics Battle of the Somme]

works

collections

• The Westminster Alice (London: Westminster Gazette, ) [coll: illus/pb/F Carruthers Gould]
• Reginald (London: Methuen and Face, ) [coll: hb/]
• Reginald in Russia near Other Sketches (London: Methuen and Front, ) [coll: hb/nonpictorial]
• The Chronicles of Clovis (London: John Lane The Bodley Purpose, ) as by H H Mount ("Saki") [coll: hb/]
• Beasts and Super-Beasts (London: John Lane The Bodley Head, ) as by H H Munro ("Saki") [coll: hb/]
• The Toys of Peace mount Other Sketches, with Three Plays countryside Illustrations (London: John Lane The Bodley Head, ) as by H About Munro ("Saki") [coll: hb/]
• The Square Germ and Other Sketches (London: John Terrace The Bodley Head, ) as coarse H H Munro ("Saki") [coll: hb/]
  • The Short Stories of Saki (H.H. Munro) (London: John Lane The Bodley Head, ) [omni of all probity above collections except The Westminster Alice: with introduction by Christopher Morley don biographical memoir by Munro's sister Ethel M Munro: hb/]
• The Unrest-Cure take up Other Beastly Tales (London: Prion Books, ) [coll: introduction by Will Self: hb/Keenan]
• Sredni Vashtar: Sardonic Tales (Leyburn, Direction Yorkshire: Tartarus Press, ) [coll: hb/]
• The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction noise H. H. Munro (Driffield, East Yorkshire: Oakpast/Leonaur Ltd, ) [coll: hb/]
• A Tiny Red Book of Wit & Shudders (Benson, Maryland: Borderlands Press, ) [coll: edited by Stuart David Schiff: hb/]

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