Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches

by Saki

Overview

This book is a collection of sketches by Hector Hugh Munro, or Saki, who was a satirist and author with a taste for the witty and outrageous.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940000760574
Publisher:	B&rR Samizdat Express
Publication date:	01/01/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	262 KB

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 satirize 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. Besides his short stories (which were first published in newspapers, as was customary at the time and then collected into several volumes), he 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.