Hector Munro: 20 books

Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916), scrivendo sotto il nome de plume di Saki, mette alla berlina con ironica eleganza la società edoardiana. Questa raccolta dei suoi racconti più spassosi ci trasporta magicamente nel mondo rarefatto delle alte sfere sociali inglesi di questo periodo storico e ci immerge...

H.H. Munro, better known by the pen name Saki, was a prolific Scottish author of the Edwardian era, considered as the master of short stories and compared to O Henry and Dorothy Parker. He is best known for his witty, sometimes whimsical, often cynical and bizarre short stories - most of his works...

.H. Munro, better known by the pen name Saki, was a prolific Scottish author of the Edwardian era. “Gabriel-Ernest” starts with a warning: "There is a wild beast in your woods”. In the village, where lives the main protagonist Van Cheele strange things happen - poultry had been missing...

H.H. Munro, better known by the pen name Saki, was a prolific Scottish author of the Edwardian era, considered as the master of short stories. "Sredni Vashtar" is a short story written between 1900 and 1911. Conradin, a sickly ten-year-old boy lives with his cousin and guardian, Mrs. De...

H.H. Munro, better known by the pen name Saki, was a prolific Scottish author of the Edwardian era, considered as the master of short stories and compared to O Henry and Dorothy Parker. “The Bull” is a sardonic short story, first published in 1919. Tom Yorkfield, a farmer, receives a visit from...

Russia, which is blessed with a rich variety of tribes and peoples, the despair of the ethnographical geographer, who can scarcely find enough distinctive colours wherewith to denote them all on his maps, is characterised by a singular uniformity of physical conditions throughout the greater part of...