H.H. Munro (Saki) Gabriel-Ernest -short story

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Gabriel-Ernest -Saki's short story
Gabriel Ernest'by Saki


produced by Robert Nichol copyright VOX AUDIO

Read by Richard Mitchley recorded and copyright to Audioproductions London

About Saki (H. H. Munro)

Hector Hugh Munro, or Saki was a satirist and author with a taste for the witty and outrageous. Saki wrote most of his best work for newspapers such as the Westminster Gazette, Daily Express, Bystander, Morning Post and Outlook. A master of the short story, Saki entertains like few other writers do at the first reading. It is on subsequent readings that one is made aware of the sheer beauty and ease of Saki's language.
The name Saki is often thought to be a reference to the cupbearer in the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, a poem mentioned disparagingly by the eponymous character in "Reginald on Christmas Presents" and alluded to in a few other stories. (This is stated as fact by Emlyn Williams in his 1978 introduction to a Saki anthology [2] It may, however, be a reference to the South American primate of the same name, "a small, long-tailed monkey from the Western Hemisphere" that is a central character in "The Remoulding of Groby Lington

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[MandaOwl]

This is a great story :)