Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) expanded the possibilities of the short story by infusing it with the interests and techniques of the comedy of manners. In so doing, Munro produced satiric narratives remembered for their epigrammatic wit, narrative economy, and...
The reputation of British writer H. H. Munro--more commonly known as Saki--rests primarily on his short stories conveying whimsical humor, fascination with the odd and eerie, and worldly disillusionment with hypocrisy and banality. Written between the en...
Hector Hugh Munro (Saki), one of many British writers to perish during World War I, is thought to have died before his writing attained its full potential. While he wrote short stories throughout his career, he eventually turned to writing novels and pla...
When William Came is a novel written by British author Saki (the pseudonym of Hector Hugh Munro) and published in 1913. At the time of writing it was set several years in the future, after a war between Germany and Great Britain, which Germany won. The...
The voice came from somewhere amid the horde, stunning the dozens of reporters gathered around Washington Redskins quarterback Doug Williams inside Jack Murphy Stadium in 1988. So inane, so ridiculous, the words immediately became the stuff of legend, exaggerated over time. Let's get...
In their own words, early European merchants, travellers and explorers describe what they saw when they visited Africa 500 years ago. One of them, a truly flabbergasted Major Dubois, a French scholar, wrote about the Malian city of Djenne in these words: "What is...
