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Saki: The Improper Stories of H. H. Munro (a reference to the ending of "The Story Teller") was an eight-part series produced by Philip Mackie for Granada Television in 1962. Actors involved included Mark Burns as Clovis, Fenella Fielding as Mary Drakmanton, Heather Chasen as Agnes Huddle, Richard Vernon as the Major, Rosamund Greenwood as ...
Hector Hugh Munro (), photographed by E. O. Hoppé"Tobermory" is a humorous short story by Hector Hugh Munro written under his pen-name, Saki.It was originally published in The Westminster Gazette in 1909, first collected, in a revised form, in The Chronicles of Clovis (1911), and has frequently been reprinted in anthologies.
"Gabriel-Ernest" is a 1909 short story by British writer H. H. Munro, better known as Saki. The story was included in The Westminster Gazette and appears in the collection Reginald in Russia published by Methuen & Co. in 1910.
"Sredni Vashtar" is a short story by Saki (Hector Hugh Munro), written between 1900 and 1911 and first published in his 1911 short story collection The Chronicles of Clovis. It has been adapted for opera, film, radio and television.
Munro’s first book of short stories, Dance of the Happy Shades, was published in 1968 and received Canada’s Governor General Award for Literary Merit that year. In the decades that followed ...
Alice Munro, the Nobel Literature Prize winner best known for her mastery of short stories and depictions of womanhood in rural settings, has died in Ontario, Canada, at the age of 92.
The title character, Clovis Sangrail, is the protagonist of some stories and is hardly more than mentioned in others, Munro having been at some pains to bring a degree of unity to his book by revising some of his non-Clovis stories to give Clovis an incidental role. [6] [7] He also featured in some later stories by Munro. [8]
Alice Munro, the Nobel Prize-winning short story author known for 'Dear Life,' has died. She was 92. ... The story, one of Munro's first blatantly autobiographical works, freed her. From then on ...