The Chronicles of Clovis - Couverture souple

Waugh, Auberon; Munro, H.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140083553 ISBN 13 : 9780140083552

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 1986

Synopsis

Book by Munro H H

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Hector Hugh Munro (1870 – 1916), better known by the pen name Saki, and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirized Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Rudyard Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward, and P. G. Wodehouse. At the start of World War I, although 43 and officially over-age, Munro refused a commission and joined 2nd King Edward's Horse as an ordinary trooper, later transferring to 22nd Battalion, the Royal Fusiliers, where he rose to the rank of lance sergeant. More than once he returned to the battlefield when officially still too sick or injured. In November 1916, when sheltering in a shell crater near Beaumont-Hamel, France, during the Battle of the Ancre he was killed by a German sniper.

Présentation de l'éditeur

"The Chronicles of Clovis" from Hector Hugh Munro. British author, known by the pen name Saki (1870-1916).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140083553
• ISBN 13: 9780140083552
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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