Hector Hugh Munro was a prolific British writer who worked in a variety of literary genres. Under the pen name Saki, he produced a series of plays and tales, many of which center around a sophisticated bon vivant called Clovis who delights in...
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Hector Hugh Munro was a prolific British writer who worked in a variety of literary genres. Under the pen name Saki, he produced a series of plays and tales, many of which center around a sophisticated bon vivant called Clovis who delights in skewering the pretensions of his elders with a rapier-like wit. The stories collected in The Chronicles of Clovis will delight fans of P.G. Wodehouse, Rudyard Kipling, and Oscar Wilde
Title; Contents; Introduction; Esmé; The Match-Maker; Tobermory; Mrs. Packletide's Tiger; The Stampeding of Lady Bastable; The Background; Hermann the Irascible-A Story of the Great Weep; The Unrest-Cure; The Jesting of Arlington Stringham; Sredni Vashtar; Adrian; The Chaplet; The Quest; Wratislav; The Easter Egg; Filboid Studge, the Story of a Mouse that Helped; The Music on the Hill; The Story of St. Vespaluus; The Way to the Dairy; The Peace Offering; The Peace of Mowsle Barton; The Talking-Out of Tarrington; The Hounds of Fate; The Recessional; A Matter of Sentiment
The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope"Ministers of Grace"; The Remoulding of Groby Lington;
