Author: | Hector Hugh Munro | ISBN: | 1230000450423 |
Publisher: | Media Galaxy | Publication: | May 25, 2015 |
Imprint: | Language: | English |
Author: | Hector Hugh Munro |
ISBN: | 1230000450423 |
Publisher: | Media Galaxy |
Publication: | May 25, 2015 |
Imprint: | |
Language: | English |
.H. Munro, better known by the pen name Saki, was a prolific Scottish author of the Edwardian era. “Gabriel-Ernest” starts with a warning: "There is a wild beast in your woods”. In the village, where lives the main protagonist Van Cheele strange things happen - poultry had been missing from the farms, hares were growing unaccountably scarcer, and the miller's wife had lost a child some two months ago. Once Van Cheele went for one of his frequent rambles through his woodland property and found a wild-looking boy of about sixteen, who sunning near the lake. Talking with him Van Cheele discovered, that the wild-boy in front of him is a werewolf… The brilliant stories are characterized by pithiness and black humor, so you will certainly enjoy the writer masterpiece of H.H. Munro!
.H. Munro, better known by the pen name Saki, was a prolific Scottish author of the Edwardian era. “Gabriel-Ernest” starts with a warning: "There is a wild beast in your woods”. In the village, where lives the main protagonist Van Cheele strange things happen - poultry had been missing from the farms, hares were growing unaccountably scarcer, and the miller's wife had lost a child some two months ago. Once Van Cheele went for one of his frequent rambles through his woodland property and found a wild-looking boy of about sixteen, who sunning near the lake. Talking with him Van Cheele discovered, that the wild-boy in front of him is a werewolf… The brilliant stories are characterized by pithiness and black humor, so you will certainly enjoy the writer masterpiece of H.H. Munro!