Hector hugh munro biography of martin luther

Entry updated 1 December 2024. Tagged: Author.

Pseudonym of Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916), Burma-born UK author and journalist in England from infancy; noted for the acerbic wit and grace of his fiction, almost all of it in short forms.

In the late 1890s he began writing contemporary political sketches, inspired and illustrated by F Carruthers Gould, for The Westminster Gazette as by Saki, the name of the "Minister of Wine" in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, publishing these Parodies of Lewis Carroll as The Westminster Alice (coll 1902).

When William Came: A Story of London under the Hohenzollerns (1913) as by H H Munro ("Saki") is a trenchant Future War novel about a German Invasion, in which Britain's abject capitulation leads to the occupation of London; the tale was regarded by I F Clarke as the best of all such works.

Many tales of the weird and fantastic – ironic, witty, often featuring in the Edwardian manner young boys who wear the aspect of