Saki-The Open Window.pptVIP

Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916) Pen name: Saki Occupation Author, Playwright Nationality: British The name Saki · Farsi for cup-bearer’ · From either the ancient Persian poem The Rubayat of Omar Khayyam?or possibly from the New World Saki monkey?Pitheciidae, （both being referred to in his acerbically witty and sometimes macabre stories.） Master of short stories. Often be compared to?O Henry. Saki was born Hector Hugh Munro in Akyab, Burma (now Myanmar), the son of Charles Augustus Munro, an inspector-general in the Burma police. Munros mother, the former Mary Frances Mercer, died in 1872 - s