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"Saki: A Life of Hector Hugh Munro, with six short stories never before collected." (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1981)In 2003, Figueroa Press reprinted Simon&Schuster's 1981 edition of "Saki." To order that paperback edition, please call (213) 740-BOOK or contact the USC Bookstore at http:/ Chapter One begins: "Had the victim been anyone but his mother, the irony to the story might have made Saki smile: It was the winter of 1872, and Mary Frances Munro, who had borne three children in less than three years, was pregnant again. Despite the primitive conditions of northwest Burma, where her husband was an officer in the British military police, each of the earlier births had been successful. But when she was found to be carrying yet another baby, her husband took Mary back to his family's home in Devonshire so that her fourth delivery might less hazardous than the others. "There, in the safeness of western England, she was struck down by the kind of fate that her youngest child grew up to respect and celebrate. On a quiet country lane, a runaway cow charged Mary Munro. The shock caused a miscarriage that took the new life and her own." |
