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The Playboy of the Week-End World (1977) by Emlyn Williams, adapts 16 of Saki's stories. Wolves at the Window (2008) by Toby Davies, adapts 12 of Saki's stories. [23] Saki Shorts (2003) is a musical based on nine stories by Saki, with music, book and lyrics by John Gould and Dominic McChesney.
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.
Beasts and Super-Beasts is a collection of short stories, written by Saki (the literary pseudonym of Hector Hugh Munro) and first published in 1914. The title parodies that of George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman. Along with The Chronicles of Clovis, Beasts and Super-Beasts is one of Saki's best-known works.
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911) is the third volume of short stories by Saki, the pseudonym of Hector Hugh Munro. The collection features 28 stories, the majority of which had earlier appeared in various newspapers and magazines. Many of the stories follow privileged characters in Edwardian England. The collection contains some of Saki's most ...
"Gabriel-Ernest" starts with a warning: "There is a wild beast in your woods..." As the story progresses, we learn from that Gabriel is indeed wild, feral – a werewolf in fact. The story uses the idea of lycanthropy as a metaphor for adolescence. The story's climax is when Gabriel is revealed to have taken a small child home from Sunday school.
In the story, Sredni Vashtar is a polecat–ferret hybrid. Conradin, a sickly 10-year-old boy, lives in the care of his despised, overbearing and controlling cousin Mrs De Ropp. He relies on his vivid imagination not only to keep him strong enough to survive, but also to serve as his escape from the real world.
Many of the best K-dramas began life as a webtoon. Death’s Game is an example of a manhwa adaptation that actually manages to capture the reading experience of the original webtoon—and maybe ...
Short story collections by Saki (2 P) Pages in category "Works by Saki" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.