现代大学英语阅读、Saki生平介绍
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The open window “looks like a ghost story(鬼故事), but a picture of social caricature(讽刺画).
In a typical social occasions, the three people say formulae(客套话), but each missing his own mind.
Writing Career
Fiction :
The Unbearable Bassington(1912) 不能忍受的巴辛顿
When William Came(1913)
Short Stories:
•The Toys of Peace(1919) 和平的玩偶
•The Chronicles of Clovis(1911) 克洛维斯记事
• At the age of 12 young Saki was sent to Pencarwick School in Exmouth and Bedford Grammar School.
youth
• In 1893, Saki followed his father into the Indian Imperial Police, where he was posted to Burma (like George Orwell a generation later)..
Short Stories:
•Reginald (1904) 雷金纳德
•Beasts and SuperBeast(1914)
野兽与超级野兽 •The Square Egg (1924)
方蛋
This writing style was well used in:
The Open Window.
The Open Window
childhood
• In 1872, on a home visit to England, Mary was charged by a cow; and the shock caused her to miscarry. She never recovered and soon died. Charles Munro sent his children, including two-year-old Hector, to England, where they were brought up by their grandmother and aunts in a strict puritanical(极端拘谨的) household.
O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroily
Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 13 November 1916), Born in Akyab, Hector Hugh Munro was the son of Charles Augustus Munro and Mary Frances Mercer (1843–72), Mary was the daughter of Rear Admiral Samuel Mercer; and her nephew, Cecil William Mercer, became a famous writer as Dornford Yates. Charles Munro was an InspectorGeneral for the Burmese Police.
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Brief Introduction
• Hector Hugh Munro . better known by the pen name Saki, and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty(诙谐的),mischievous(淘气的)and sometimes macabre(以死亡为主题的) stories satirised Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and often compared to
For example , in The
Open Window:
•Aunt in anxiously waiting for her husband's return.
•little girl thinking about how to play tricks on boring guests.
•guests leave the buried in his sick body in the whine(发牢骚) about your mistakes.
he also published a “what-if”
novel, When William Came,
subtitled “A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns", imagining the eponymous German emperor (同名德国皇帝) conquering Britain.
• Two years later, having contracted malaria(感染疟疾), he resigned and returned to England.
His Death
• At the start of World War I, although 43 and officially over-age, Munro refused a commission(委员会) and joined 2nd King Edward's Horse as an ordinary trooper(普通 骑兵)
• In November 1916, when sheltering in a shell crater near Beaumont-Hamel, France, he was killed by a German sniper(狙击兵).
Writing career
• Undoubtedly the days of his youth would provide much fodder for his future career
• In England he started his career as a journalist, writing for newspapers such as the Westminster Gazette,
Daily Express, Bystander, Morning Post, and Outlook.
Writing Career
• he then gave that up and settled in London. Many of the stories from this period feature the elegant(高 雅的） and effete（疲惫的）
Writing Career
Writing Career
• In 1900, Munro's first book appeared: The Rise of the Russian Empire.
• From 1902 to 1908, Munro worked as a foreign correspondent(记者）for The Morning Post in the Balkans, Warsaw, Russia and Paris.
In a typical social occasions, the three people say formulae(客套话), but each missing his own mind.
Writing Career
Fiction :
The Unbearable Bassington(1912) 不能忍受的巴辛顿
When William Came(1913)
Short Stories:
•The Toys of Peace(1919) 和平的玩偶
•The Chronicles of Clovis(1911) 克洛维斯记事
• At the age of 12 young Saki was sent to Pencarwick School in Exmouth and Bedford Grammar School.
youth
• In 1893, Saki followed his father into the Indian Imperial Police, where he was posted to Burma (like George Orwell a generation later)..
Short Stories:
•Reginald (1904) 雷金纳德
•Beasts and SuperBeast(1914)
野兽与超级野兽 •The Square Egg (1924)
方蛋
This writing style was well used in:
The Open Window.
The Open Window
childhood
• In 1872, on a home visit to England, Mary was charged by a cow; and the shock caused her to miscarry. She never recovered and soon died. Charles Munro sent his children, including two-year-old Hector, to England, where they were brought up by their grandmother and aunts in a strict puritanical(极端拘谨的) household.
O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroily
Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 13 November 1916), Born in Akyab, Hector Hugh Munro was the son of Charles Augustus Munro and Mary Frances Mercer (1843–72), Mary was the daughter of Rear Admiral Samuel Mercer; and her nephew, Cecil William Mercer, became a famous writer as Dornford Yates. Charles Munro was an InspectorGeneral for the Burmese Police.
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Brief Introduction
• Hector Hugh Munro . better known by the pen name Saki, and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty(诙谐的),mischievous(淘气的)and sometimes macabre(以死亡为主题的) stories satirised Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and often compared to
For example , in The
Open Window:
•Aunt in anxiously waiting for her husband's return.
•little girl thinking about how to play tricks on boring guests.
•guests leave the buried in his sick body in the whine(发牢骚) about your mistakes.
he also published a “what-if”
novel, When William Came,
subtitled “A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns", imagining the eponymous German emperor (同名德国皇帝) conquering Britain.
• Two years later, having contracted malaria(感染疟疾), he resigned and returned to England.
His Death
• At the start of World War I, although 43 and officially over-age, Munro refused a commission(委员会) and joined 2nd King Edward's Horse as an ordinary trooper(普通 骑兵)
• In November 1916, when sheltering in a shell crater near Beaumont-Hamel, France, he was killed by a German sniper(狙击兵).
Writing career
• Undoubtedly the days of his youth would provide much fodder for his future career
• In England he started his career as a journalist, writing for newspapers such as the Westminster Gazette,
Daily Express, Bystander, Morning Post, and Outlook.
Writing Career
• he then gave that up and settled in London. Many of the stories from this period feature the elegant(高 雅的） and effete（疲惫的）
Writing Career
Writing Career
• In 1900, Munro's first book appeared: The Rise of the Russian Empire.
• From 1902 to 1908, Munro worked as a foreign correspondent(记者）for The Morning Post in the Balkans, Warsaw, Russia and Paris.