Book description
Three weeks later the world was advised of the coming of a new
breakfast food, heralded under the resounding name of Filboid Studge
H. H. Munro, better known by his pen name, Saki, wrote wickedly comic
satires of upper-class Edwardian life. These seven short stories are
macabre and extremely funny: they include a cat that is regrettably
taught to speak, a vicious pet ferret worshipped as a god, a businessman
triumphantly selling an unpalatable breakfast mush, and many dark twists
and barbs. This book includes Filboid Studge, a Story of a Mouse That
Helped, Todermory, Mrs. Packletide's Tiger, Sredni Vashtar, The Music on
the Hill, The Recessional and The Cobweb. Hector Hugo Munro, better
known by his pen name Saki, was born in Burma in 1870. He came to
England for schooling following the early death of his mother, and was
raised by his grandmother. After much travelling he followed in his
fathers footsteps and worked for the Indian Imperian Police in Burma,
before falling ill and returning to England to pursue a career in
journalism. He published his first book, The Rise of the Russian Empire,
in 1900. Throughout his writing career he worked as a foreign
correspondent and fought in World War I, during which he was killed by a
sniper in 1916. He was considered a master of the short story.
