H. H. Munro

THE LADY, OR THE TIGER? F. R. Stockton In the very olden time, there lived a semi-barbaric king, whose ideas of life were rather florid and at the same time unrestrained. He was a man of great fancy and he always turned his varied fancies into facts. Among the borrowed notions by which his...

INTRODUCTION BY NOËL COWARD Now, in the year 1967, I have been asked to write an introductory preface for a reissue of the works of Hector Munro, "Saki." This most definitely belongs to the "Who could have dreamed?" department. Who could have dreamed fifty-two years ago when, at the age of...