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There are good things which we want to share with the world and good things which we want to keep to ourselves. The secret of our favourite restaurant, to take a case, is guarded jealously from all but a few intimates; the secret, to take a contrary case, of our infallible remedy for seasickness is thrust upon every traveller we meet, even if he be no more than a casual acquaintance about to cross the Serpentine.

Knowing that the motherless young Henry Munro spent much of his youth with puritanical Edwardian relatives, one can only imagine the living models for his memorable characters. Filboid Studge and Mrs. Packletide may be stuck with Dickensian monikers, but it is the next society invitation rather than meal that concerns them. None is a match for the wit and wiles of the young gallant Clovis, resident companion, storyteller, and maker of mischief. ————————————————————— “A strange exotic creature, this Saki, to us many others who were trying to do it too. For we were so domestic, he so terrifyingly cosmopolitan. While we were being funny, as planned, with collar-studs and hot-water bottles, he was being much funnier with werwolves and tigers. Our little dialogues were between John and Mary; his, and how much better, between Bertie van Tahn and the Baroness. Even the most casual intruder into one of his sketches, as it might be our Tomkins, had to be called Belturbet or de Ropp, and for his hero, weary man-of-the-world at seventeen, nothing less thrilling than Clovis Sangrail would do. In our envy we may have wondered sometimes if it were not much easier to be funny with tigers than with collar-studs; if Saki's careless cruelty, that strange boyish insensitiveness of his, did not give him an unfair start in the pursuit of laughter. It may have been so; but, fortunately, our efforts to be funny in the Saki manner have not survived to prove it.” — A. A. Milne

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The Chronicles of Clovis by Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916), better known by his pen name Saki, follow the exploits of Saki's Clovis Sangrail. This is a classic tale that has been loved by many for generations, a great addition to the collection. Any profits generated from the sale of this book will go towards the Freeriver Community project, a project designed to promote harmonious community living and well-being in the world. To learn more about the Freeriver project please visit the website - www.freerivercommunity.com

Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916), better known by the pen name Saki and also as H H Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous, and sometimes macabre, stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and often compared to O Henry and Dorothy Parker. Besides his short stories, which were first published in newspapers as was customary at the time, and then collected into several volumes, his other works included plays, an historical study, two short novels - one a fantasy about a German invasion of Britain - and a political parody. Munro was born in British Burma, then part of British India, the son of an Inspector General for the Indian Imperial Police. After his mother's death in 1872 he and his siblings were sent to England to be raised by their grandmother and paternal maiden aunts in a strict and puritanical household. These aunts were to become models for characters in some of Munro's stories. In 1893 he followed his father into the Indian Imperial Police and was posted to Burma but successive bouts of fever forced him to return home after only 15 months. He settled in London in 1896 and embarked on a writing career, first as a journalist for various newspapers and magazines, before publishing his first book The Rise of the Russian Empire in 1900, and entering into political parody the same year with The Westminster Alice. In 1902 he became foreign correspondent for The Morning Post, first in the Balkans then in Russia, moved on to Paris and returned to London in 1908. During this time he was contributing stories and sketches to the Westminster Gazette and the Bystander as well as The Morning Post, with his first collection of stories, Reginald, coming out in 1904. His third collection, The Chronicles of Clovis (1912), is one of his best-known works, along with Beasts and Super-Beasts, and the character of Clovis Sangrail appears in several stories in both collections.

A classic collection of short stories by Saki, including the following: 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.