Download Saki: 'The Man on the Hill', 'The Cobweb', 'The Interlopers', and 'The Hounds of Fate' AudioBook Free
Saki was the pen-name of Hector Hugh Munro. One of the wittiest of all short-story writers, he was born in 1870 in Burma where his father, a Scots army officer, was stationed. He was one when the family returned to England to are in North Devon. When his mother died his father, time for serve in India, put Hector and his brothers and sisters into the care of his own mother and two sisters. The children's childhood using their aunts was miserable. The aunts hated one another, quarrelled fiercely, and bullied the kids mentally. They saw little of other children, and Hector's main enjoyment was drawing. After some tuition with a governess he visited school in Exmouth, and later to Bedford Grammar School. In 1886 his father retired . A kindly man, he took the kids to Normandy, to Dresden, to Prague , and also to Davos, where they rode, climbed and played tennis, and Hector took lessons in pastel from a painter of birds of prey. As a young man, Hector went as a Police Official to Burma, but returned after 2 yrs, made ill by the climate. Recovering, he became a political correspondent for the Morning Post, residing in the Balkans, in Warsaw, in Petersburg, and in Paris. He also began publishing the entertaining short stories that made him famous. In 1908 he settled in London, writing stories, playing bridge, and enjoying theatre and ballet. When the fantastic War broke out he enlisted in the ranks. On 14th November 1916, crouching with others in a shallow muddy shell-crater before an attack on Beaumont Hamel, he was heard to shout 'Put that bloody cigarette out' A moment later he was shot through the head. This volume includes four of his best loved stories: "THE PERSON on the Hill", "The Cobweb", "The Interlopers", and "The Hounds of Fate", read by Patrick Barlow. Patrick has appeared on stage nationwide in such productions as Loot and A Funny Thing Happened on the path to the Forum, and his many tv set appearances include The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole and Victoria Wood - As Seen on TV, but he is probably most widely known for creating the type of Desmond Oliver Dingle, Artistic Director and LEADER from the National Theatre of Brent, that amazing two-man company which has presented on stage and tv set such productions as Charge from the Light Brigade, Zulu, The Messiah, and The Greatest Story Ever Told.
