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  <name><![CDATA[H.H. Munro]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[&lt;b&gt;Hector Hugh Munro, &lt;i&gt;better known by the pen name Saki&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, was born in Akyab, Burma (now known as Sittwe, Myanmar), was a British writer, whose witty and sometimes macabre stories satirized Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. His tales feature delicately drawn characters and finely judged narratives. &quot;The Open Window&quot; may be his most famous, with a closing line (&quot;Romance at short notice was her speciality&quot;) that has entered the lexicon.

In addition to his short stories (which were first published in newspapers, as was the custom of the time, and then collected into several volumes) he also wrote a full-length play, The Watched Pot, in collaboration with Charles Maude; two one-act plays; a historical study, The Rise of the Russian Empire, the only book published under his own name; a short novel, The Unbearable Bassington; the episodic The Westminster Alice (a Parliamentary parody of Alice in Wonderland), and When William Came, subtitled A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns, an early alternate history. He was influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Kipling, and himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward, and P. G. Wodehouse.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Sittwe</hometown>  <born_at>12/18/1870</born_at>  <died_at>11/13/1916</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Complete Saki]]></title>
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  <average_rating>4.39</average_rating>
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  <published>1976</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Best of Saki (Picador Books)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[H.H. Munro]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.31</average_rating>
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  <published>1994</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Short Stories of Saki]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[H.H. Munro]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.11</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>45</ratings_count>
  <published>1930</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Chronicles of Clovis]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[H.H. Munro]]></name>
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  <published>1911</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Unrest-Cure and Other Beastly Tales]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[H.H. Munro]]></name>
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  <published>2000</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Humor, Horror and the Supernatural: 22 Stories by Saki]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[H.H. Munro]]></name>
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  <published>1968</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Sredni Vashtar and Other Stories]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[H.H. Munro]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.40</average_rating>
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  <published>1995</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Unbearable Bassington]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Maurice Baring]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.73</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>11</ratings_count>
  <published>1912</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Story-Teller: Thirteen Tales]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[H.H. Munro]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jeanne Titherington]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>6</ratings_count>
  <published>1982</published>  
  
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        <book id="5531957">
  <title><![CDATA[The Interlopers]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[H.H. Munro]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.14</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>7</ratings_count>
  <published>2002</published>  
  
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