Red cloth binding with (rebacked) spine. Browned pages.

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The 1942 edition of The Short Stories of Saki by H. H. Munro, published by John Lane The Bodley Head in London, is a wartime reprint of his collected short fiction featuring an introduction by Christopher Morley.

Book Overview

• Author: H. H. Munro (writing under the pen name Saki)

• Publisher: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., London

• Year of Print: 1942 (wartime reprint/edition)

• Language: English

• Length: Approx. 718 pages

Contents & Features

• Collections included: Contains major collections like Reginald, Reginald in Russia, The Chronicles of Clovis, Beasts and Super-Beasts, The Toys of Peace, and The Square Egg.

• Special Material: Features an introduction by American author and editor Christopher Morley, and often includes a short biographical memoir of Saki written by his sister, Ethel M. Munro.

• Style: Known for dark humor, sharp satire of Edwardian society, witty dialogue, and unexpected macabre twists.

Please view our photographs for the restored status of this book, once a prized possession of Jack Lang’s mother (a noted book reviewer).

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.

NOTE: This is an original  book from the library gathered by the famous Cambridge Don, computer scientist, food and wine connoisseur, Jack Arnold LANG. Note: Jack founded the Michelin Guide ‘Midsummer House’- Cambridge’s paramount restaurant. This dining experience is hidden amongst the grassy pastures and grazing cattle of Midsummer Common and perched on the banks of the River Cam.

In 2008, Jack was one of the co-founders of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, alongside other members of the Department, and acted as the Foundation’s Chair. The project’s original goals were modest: to build and distribute low-cost computers for prospective applicants to our Computer Science degree. Initially the project was a “success disaster”, as Jack would say, as demand far outstripped the low-scale manufacturing plans. Ultimately the Raspberry Pi became the UK’s most successful computer with more than 60 million sold to date. Jack was drawn to the educational possibilities of the Raspberry Pi, its potential uses in emerging economies and the way it could support self-directed learning.