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Saki
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Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), popularly known by his pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirise Edwardian society and culture. He is considered to be a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, Munro himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1870
- Died
- 1916
- Works
- 349
Top works
- Guía literaria de Londres
- The novels and plays of Saki (H.H. Munro) complete in one volume
- Spectral Tales
- Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum
- The rise of the Russian empire
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- Listeners
- 5,397
- Total plays
- 52,805
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants
· 2021 · cited 2,970x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance 1990–2021: a systematic analysis with forecasts to 2050
· 2024 · cited 2,724x
- Alterations in Brain and Immune Function Produced by Mindfulness Meditation
· 2003 · cited 1,840x
- Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million children, adolescents, and adults
· 2024 · cited 1,761x
- Infectious disease in an era of global change
· 2021 · cited 1,680x
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Quotes
- “We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other married couples they sometimes live apart.”
- “I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.”
- “Put that bloody cigarette out!”
- “Reginald in his wildest lapses into veracity never admits to being more than twenty-two.”
- “I found everyone talking nervously and feverishly of the weather and the war in South Africa, except Reginald, who was reclining in a comfortable chair with the dreamy, far-away look that a volcano might wear just after it had desolated entire villages.”
- “It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.”
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Key facts
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- Hector Hugh Munro by E. O. Hoppé (1913)
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- Saki
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- Akyab, Burma, British India (present-day Myanmar)
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- Beaumont-Hamel, France
- Writer <! for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] >.occupation
- Author, playwright
- Writer <! for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] >.nationality
- British
- Military person.embed
- yes
- Military person.serviceyears
- 1914–1916
- Military person.rank
- Lance Sergeant
- Military person.unit
- 22nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers
- Military person.battles
- First World War Battle of the Somme Battle of the Ancre
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Wikidata facts
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- Hector Hugh Munro.jpg
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- Hector Hugh Munro
- date of birth
- 1870-12-18
- date of death
- 1916-11-13
- Commons gallery
- Hector Hugh Munro
- pseudonym
- Saki
- birth name
- Hector Hugh Munro
- name in native language
- Saki
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Works in European collections
4 objects attributed to Saki, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Article
27 sectionsContents
- Life
- Early life
- Writing career
- Death
- Legacy
- Sexuality
- Pen-name
- Selected works
- "The Interlopers"
- "Gabriel-Ernest"
- "The Schartz-Metterklume Method"
- "The Toys of Peace"
- "The Open Window"
- "The Unrest-Cure"
- "Esmé"
- "Sredni Vashtar"
- "Tobermory"
- "The Bull"
- "The East Wing"
- Publications
- Radio
- Television
- Short films
- Theatre
- References
- Literary criticism and biography
- External links
Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), popularly known by his pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirise Edwardian society and culture. He is considered to be a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, Munro himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse.
Besides his short stories (which were first published in newspapers, as was customary at the time, and then collected into several volumes), Munro wrote a full-length play, The Watched Pot, in collaboration with Charles Maude; two one-act plays; a historical study, The Rise of the Russian Empire (the only book published under his own name); a short novel, The Unbearable Bassington; the episodic The Westminster Alice (a parliamentary parody of Alice in Wonderland); and When William Came, subtitled A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns, a fantasy about a future German invasion and occupation of Britain.