Hector Hugh Munro, better known by the pen name Saki, and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. Munro was the son of an officer in the Burma police. At the age of two, he was sent to live with his aunts near Barnstaple, Devon, England. He later took revenge on their strictness and lack of understanding by portraying tyrannical aunts in many of his stories about children. He was educated at Exmouth and at Bedford grammar school, and in 1893 he joined the Burma police but was invalided out. Turning to journalism, he wrote political satires for the Westminster Gazette and in 1900 published The Rise of the Russian Empire, a serious historical work. Among his most frequently anthologized works are Tobermory, The Open Window, Sredni Vashtar, Laura, and The Schartz-Metterklume Method. His novel The Unbearable Bassington describes the adventures of a fastidious and likeable but maladjusted hero, in a manner anticipating that of the early work of the English satirist Evelyn Waugh. The short story Music on The Hill is about a woman named Sylvia who moves with her new husband to his country house. They spend days roaming through the woods, but when Sylvia scoffs at a statue of the Greek God Pan she sets in motion events that seem to come from a much deeper and darker part of the forest nymph… You can listen online to free English audiobook “Music on The Hill” by Saki on our website.
