Beasts and Super-Beasts - Munro ("Saki"), H. H.

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Résumé :
Beasts and Super-Beasts, a collection of short stories, was first published in 1914 and was written by Saki, a pen name for Hector Hugh Munro. The title is a parody of Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw. Along with The Chronicles of Clovis, Beasts and Super-Beasts are one of Saki's best-known works. It was his last book of short stories before he died in World War I, and many of its tales, most notably The Open Window, are frequently repeated in anthologies. The majority of the stories in this collection feature animals in some way, which serves as the inspiration for the title. In a number of the stories, Clovis Sangrail, a figure from earlier Saki works, makes an appearance. The majority of the stories have a prior publication in journals. Beasts and Super-Beasts adhere to Saki's earlier literary output's straightforward language, cynicism, and sardonic humor stylistically. Saki, a pen name for Hector Hugh Munro, wrote a collection of short stories titled Monsters and Super beasts that was first released in 1914. The title is a parody of Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw.

Biographie:
H. H. Munro (18 December 1870 - 14 November 1916), also known by his pen name Saki or simply as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose works make humorous, cheeky, and occasionally macabre fun of Edwardian society and culture. He is frequently compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker and is considered a master of the short story by academics and English professors. Along with Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Rudyard Kipling, he had an influence on A. A. Milne, Noel Coward, and P. G. Wodehouse. He also co-wrote The Watched Pot with Charles Maude, two one-act plays, The Rise of the Russian Empire, a historical study, The Unbearable Bassington, a short novel, The Westminster Alice, a parliamentary parody of Alice in Wonderland, and When in addition to his short stories, which were initially published in newspapers as was customary at the time and later collected into several volumes. H. H. Munro was born in Akyab, British Burma, then a part of British India (it is now Sittwe). Charles Augustus Munro, an Inspector General for the Indian Imperial Police, and Mary Frances Mercer (1843-1872), a descendant of Rear Admiral Samuel Mercer, were the parents of Saki.