KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA NO 1 C P C R

KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA NO. 1 C. P. C. R. I DONE BY : VISHAKA AND KAVYA

H. H MUNRO [ SAKI]

v. Hector Hugh Munro, who often wrote under the pen name Saki, was a British writer of the Edwardian era. Though he wrote plays, two satires, and a short novel, he is best known for his humorous and macabre short stories. Born in Akyab, Burma, then part of the British Empire, on 18 December 1870, H. H. Munro's mother died in 1872 following a traumatic incident with a runaway cow. He and his two siblings moved to England, where they were raised by their grandmother and unmarried aunts. Munro's father, an inspector-general with the Burma police, retired in 1887 and began spending time touring Europe with his children.

. After recovering, he began working as a journalist for a number of newspapers, including the Morning Post and the Westminster Gazette. For the latter publication, he wrote a series of satires based on Alice and Wonderland characters that would later be published as the novellalength The Westminster Alice. Munro's only He is considered master non-fiction book, a. The Rise of of the short Russian story and often compared to O. Empire. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward, and P. G. Wodehouse. [1] Beside his short stories (which were first published in newspapers, as was customary

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