So much SAKI

I think H. H. Munro/ SAKI is my favorite author of all time.

He was a Scottish-born writer whose stories satirize the Edwardian social scene, often in a macabre and cruel way.

You know they say its cruel, but if you read INTO and past the lines, sentences, words and letters, you will see that it's not cruel at all just very matter-of- fact in nature.

Here is a tiny bit of history on him that explains so much about his stories and the characters in those stories. It explains his indifference to aunts, his sarcasm about animals and the country side, overseas travel, women, manipulation of men, and everything else that he expounds on in his stories.

Saki was born Hector Hugh Munro in Akyab, Burma (now Myanmar), the son of Charles Augustus Munro, an inspector-general in the Burma police.

Munro's mother, the former Mary Frances Mercer, died in 1872 - she was killed by a runaway cow in an English country lane.

Munro was brought up in England with his brother and sister by aunts who frequently used the birch and whip.

Among Saki's most frequently anthologized short stories is 'Tobermory', in which a cat, who has seen too much scandal through country house windows, learns to talk and starts to repeat the guests' vicious comments about each other.

I think his style of writing is genious and his stories are dryly comedic, but they make you think. One can really empathize. I highly recommend this author.
Not many people I know have heard of him or ever read any of his stuff....

Go to http://www.classicreader.com/author.php/aut.200 to find a list of his short stories that you can read right away....They are delicious, and you will never forget this guy once you have read him.

I have his book too..the entire collection of short stories.

Hugs M