"home from Sunday school. A pursuit ensues but Gabriel and the child disappear near a river. The only items found are the clothes of Gabriel and the two are never seen again. Gabriel-Ernest ""Gabriel-Ernest"" is a 1909 short story by British writer H. H. Munro, better known as Saki. The story was included in ""The Westminster Gazette"" and appears in the collection ""Reginald in Russia"" published by Methuen & Co. in 1910. ""Gabriel-Ernest"" starts with a warning: “There is a wild beast in your woods…” As the story propels, we learn from the narrator that Gabriel is indeed wild, feral"
"Neil Munro (writer) Neil Munro (3 June 1863 – 22 December 1930) was a Scottish journalist, newspaper editor, author and literary critic. He was basically a serious writer, but is now mainly known for his humorous short stories, originally written under the pen name Hugh Foulis. The best known of these stories are about the fictional Clyde puffer the ""Vital Spark"" and her captain Para Handy, but they also include stories about the waiter and kirk beadle Erchie MacPherson and the travelling drapery salesman Jimmy Swan. They were originally published in the ""Glasgow Evening News"", but collections were published as"
"including the publication of annotated versions of the Para Handy stories with some stories not previously published in book form. Neil Munro (writer) Neil Munro (3 June 1863 – 22 December 1930) was a Scottish journalist, newspaper editor, author and literary critic. He was basically a serious writer, but is now mainly known for his humorous short stories, originally written under the pen name Hugh Foulis. The best known of these stories are about the fictional Clyde puffer the ""Vital Spark"" and her captain Para Handy, but they also include stories about the waiter and kirk beadle Erchie MacPherson and"
"Alice Munro Alice Ann Munro (, ""née"" Laidlaw ; born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Munro's work has been described as having revolutionized the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time. Her stories have been said to ""embed more than announce, reveal more than parade."" Munro's fiction is most often set in her native Huron County in southwestern Ontario. Her stories explore human complexities in an uncomplicated prose style. Munro's writing has established her as ""one of our greatest"
"known by his mononymous pen name Multatuli (from the Latin ""multa tuli"", ""I have suffered [or ""borne""] many things""), became famous for the satirical novel, ""Max Havelaar"" (1860), in which he denounced the abuses of colonialism in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). In 2002 Multatuli was proclaimed by the Society for Dutch Literature to have been the most important Dutch writer of all time. The Dutch writer Jan Hendrik Frederik Grönloh (1882–1961) wrote under the pseudonym Nescio (Latin for ""I don't know""). The 20th-century British author Hector Hugh Munro became known by his pen name, Saki. In 20th-century Poland,"
"from his book ""Passionella and Other Stories"", and provided the storyboards, said the tale was a reaction to his time serving in the U.S. Army: Munro (film) Munro is a 1960 Czechoslovak-American animated short film. It was directed by Gene Deitch, written by Jules Feiffer, and produced by William L. Snyder. ""Munro"" won an Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 1961. It was the first short composed outside of the United States to be so honored. The Academy Film Archive preserved ""Munro"" in 2004. The title character is a rebellious little boy who is accidentally drafted into the United"
"father, Robert Eric Laidlaw, was a fox and mink farmer, and later turned to turkey farming. Her mother, Anne Clarke Laidlaw (née Chamney), was a schoolteacher. She is of Irish and Scottish descent, her father being a direct descendant of James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd. Munro began writing as a teenager, publishing her first story, ""The Dimensions of a Shadow"", in 1950 while studying English and journalism at the University of Western Ontario under a two-year scholarship. During this period she worked as a waitress, a tobacco picker, and a library clerk. In 1951, she left the university, where she"
"Munro was educated at Pencarwick School in Exmouth and then as a boarder at Bedford School. In 1887, after his retirement, his father returned from Burma and embarked upon a series of European travels with Hector and his siblings. Hector followed his father in 1893 into the Indian Imperial Police and was posted to Burma, but successive bouts of fever meant his return home after only fifteen months. In 1896, he decided to move to London to make a living as a writer. Munro started his writing career as a journalist for newspapers such as the ""Westminster Gazette"", the ""Daily"
"1843. In 1876 he was given the colonelcy of the 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot for life and on 25 June 1878 promoted to the rank of general. Munro became a fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1840. He conducted collecting expeditions to India (1834–1838), Kashmir (1847), and Barbados (1870–1875). His main research field was tropical grasses, including the bamboo species of which he published a monograph in 1868. The genera ""Munroa"", ""Munronia"" and ""Munrochloa"" are named in his honour. Munro died in Taunton, Somerset, on 29 January 1880. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation"
"John Munro (poet) John Munro (1889–1918), was a Scottish soldier and poet who won the Military Cross during the First World War. He fell in action with the 7th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders. Munro was born in Swordale, Isle of Lewis and, writing in his native Gaelic as Iain Rothach, came to be ranked by critics alongside the major war poets. A collection of his poetry was prepared and given to a local minister for safekeeping and publication, but the manuscript was scandalously lost. Derick Thomson - the venerable poet and Professor of Celtic Studies at Glasgow - hailed Munro's work"
"Vital Spark The Vital Spark is a fictional Clyde puffer, created by Scottish writer Neil Munro. As its captain, the redoubtable Para Handy, often says: ""the smertest boat in the coastin' tred"". Puffers seem to have been regarded fondly even before Munro began publishing his short stories in the ""Glasgow Evening News"" in 1905. This may not be surprising, for these small steamboats were then providing a vital supply link around the west coast and Hebrides islands of Scotland. The charming rascality of the stories went well beyond the reality of a commercial shipping business, but they brought widespread fame."
"17 April 2013, aged 88. Munro and Fremlin also owned a home in Comox, British Columbia. At a Toronto appearance in October 2009, Munro indicated that she had received treatment for cancer and for a heart condition requiring coronary-artery bypass surgery. In 2002, her daughter Sheila Munro published a childhood memoir, ""Lives of Mothers and Daughters: Growing Up With Alice Munro"". Alice Munro Alice Ann Munro (, ""née"" Laidlaw ; born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Munro's work has been described as having revolutionized the architecture of"
"Munro (film) Munro is a 1960 Czechoslovak-American animated short film. It was directed by Gene Deitch, written by Jules Feiffer, and produced by William L. Snyder. ""Munro"" won an Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 1961. It was the first short composed outside of the United States to be so honored. The Academy Film Archive preserved ""Munro"" in 2004. The title character is a rebellious little boy who is accidentally drafted into the United States Army. No matter which adult he tells ""I'm only four"", they all fail to notice his age. Screenwriter Feiffer, who adapted his own story"
"as of 2007, the section had covered 107 countries. Munro was also editor of the ""Short Statured People of Australia"" journal, and he had previously also worked for the ""Open Rugby"" magazine. Munro was born in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales; Munro was born with dwarfism, which his brother Scott said was a ""synergy between Mr Munro's dwarfism and his looking after the smaller cricket nations."" He attended Wagga Wagga High School. Munro died at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney on 23 April 2016 of a stroke. Munro had been admitted to the hospital on 15 April, and"
"School, leaving at 14. For five years he worked in the office of the Sheriff Clerk of Argyll, a fairly prestigious post that has led to speculation that he may have had undisclosed family connections. He then moved to Glasgow and worked briefly in the cashier's office in an ironmonger's shop in the Trongate before working as a journalist on the ""Greenock Advertiser"", the ""Glasgow News"", the ""Falkirk Herald"" and the ""Glasgow Evening News"". He semi-retired from journalism in 1902 to concentrate on other writing, but returned in 1914 and became editor of the ""Glasgow Evening News"" in 1918. Munro"
"contemporary writers of fiction"", or, as Cynthia Ozick put it, ""our Chekhov."" Munro is the recipient of many literary accolades, including the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature for her work as ""master of the contemporary short story"", and the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work. She is also a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction and was the recipient of the Writers' Trust of Canada's 1996 Marian Engel Award, as well as the 2004 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for ""Runaway"".<ref name=""writerstrust.com/EngelFindley""></ref> Munro was born Alice Ann Laidlaw in Wingham, Ontario. Her"
"he worked at various times as a groom (for the Atherstone Hunt), a student teacher (1963–65), and a clerk for the Royal Masonic Charity Institute, London (1966). His hobbies included electric guitars and writing pastiches of H. H. Munro. His first short story was published during 1966 by Kyril Bonfiglioli at ""Science Fantasy"" magazine, on the strength of which he relocated to London. He there met Michael Moorcock, who was editing ""New Worlds"" magazine. He began writing reviews and short fiction for ""New Worlds"", and by 1968 he was appointed books editor. Harrison was critical of what he perceived as"
"and ""Habanera de Ferdinand"" make up the Ferdinand-inspired suite. These works were recorded in 2008 by the Michigan Philharmonic. Munro Leaf Wilbur Monroe Leaf ( Munro Leaf) (December 4, 1905 – December 21, 1976) was an American author of children's literature who wrote and illustrated nearly 40 books during his 40-year career. He is best known for ""The Story of Ferdinand"" (1936), a children's classic which he wrote on a yellow legal-length pad in less than an hour. Labeled as subversive, it stirred an international controversy. Munroe Wilbur Leaf was born on 4 December 1905, the son of Charles W"
"Lives of Girls and Women Lives of Girls and Women is a short story cycle by Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, published by McGraw-Hill Ryerson in 1971. All of the stories chronicle the life of a single character, Del Jordan, and the book has been characterized as a novel by some critics as a result. The cycle serves as a coming of age story for Del Jordan growing up first on the outskirts, and later in the centre, of the small, southern Ontario town of Jubilee. Del is portrayed as something of an outsider, unsatisfied with small town life though"
"Munro when citing a botanical name. William Munro General William Munro (1818–1880) was a senior English Army officer and plant collector, botanist and agrostologist. Munro was born as eldest son of William Munro in Druid Stoke, Gloucestershire (now in Bristol), in 1818. In 1834 he entered the 39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot as an ensign. He was promoted and given the rank of lieutenant in April 1836, captain in July 1844, major in May 1852 and lieutenant colonel in November 1853. He served many years with his regiment in India. However, it was during the Battle of Maharajpore where he"
"of the Santa Ysabel,"" ""The Bug-Wolves of Castle Manglana,"" ""In The Tomb of the Bishop,"" ""The Leather Cannon,"" ""Achsah Young—of Windsor"") (contains ""The Master Meets A Worthy Foe,"" ""The Diary,"" ""In the Hulks,"" ""In Regard to the Opening of Doors,"" ""The Transients,"" ""The Master Goes Home"") H. Warner Munn Harold Warner Munn (November 5, 1903 – January 10, 1981) was an American writer of fantasy, horror and poetry, best remembered for his early stories in ""Weird Tales"". He was an early friend and associate of authors H. P. Lovecraft and Seabury Quinn. He has been described by fellow author Jessica"
"H. Warner Munn Harold Warner Munn (November 5, 1903 – January 10, 1981) was an American writer of fantasy, horror and poetry, best remembered for his early stories in ""Weird Tales"". He was an early friend and associate of authors H. P. Lovecraft and Seabury Quinn. He has been described by fellow author Jessica Amanda Salmonson, who interviewed him during 1978, as ""the ultimate gentleman"" and ""a gentle, calm, warm, and good friend."" He was known for his intricate plotting and the careful research that he did for his stories, a habit he traced back to two mistakes made when"
"fewer than 1,000 words are sometimes referred to as ""short short stories"", or ""flash fiction"". run into the thousands. Global sales of short story fiction are very strong. In the UK sales jumped 45 per cent in 2017, driven by collections from international names such as Alice Munro, new writers to the genre such as Tom Hanks, and the revival of short story salons, such as those held by short fiction company, Pin Drop Studio. More than 690,000 short stories and anthologies were sold in the UK in 2017, generating £5.88 million, the genre’s highest sales since 2010. In 2012"
"in his ""Companion to Gaelic Scotland"" as being: ""the first strong voice of the new Gaelic verse of the 20th century"". John Munro (poet) John Munro (1889–1918), was a Scottish soldier and poet who won the Military Cross during the First World War. He fell in action with the 7th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders. Munro was born in Swordale, Isle of Lewis and, writing in his native Gaelic as Iain Rothach, came to be ranked by critics alongside the major war poets. A collection of his poetry was prepared and given to a local minister for safekeeping and publication, but the"
"Boys and Girls (short story) ""Boys and Girls"" (1964 / 1968) is a short story by Alice Munro, the Canadian winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013 which deals with the making of gender roles. Whenever she shares her daily routine farmwork with her father, the young narrator is taken to be a boy by visitors. She tries to keep away from any work in her mother's range of tasks because she does not really take any interest in that kind of work. The narrator remembers that by the time she was eleven years old she was faced"
"initials and a Munro Eagle was believed to have been at the ""Cille Bhrea"" church, or St.Brig's Chapel or St.Mary's, but since 1966 it has disappeared. Henry Munro became a chaplain in the army serving in America. In 1765 he changed to the Church of England, becoming a missionary in the New York frontier and had considerable influence among the Mohawks. He was imprisoned for his Loyalist sympathies, however he eventually escaped and returned to Scotland. Henry Munro's former home Killichoan House, was burnt in 1982, although it had previously been renamed Mountrich by later owners. The remains of the"
"a re-issue of the translation of Lucretius in ""Bohn's Classical Library"" (1908). Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro (29 October 1819 – 30 March 1885) was a British classical scholar. Munro was born at Elgin, Moray, Scotland, the illegitimate son of Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro of Novar by Penelope Forbes, and educated at Shrewsbury School, where he was one of Benjamin Hall Kennedy's first pupils. He went on to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1838, becoming a scholar in 1840, second classic and first chancellor's medallist in 1842, and fellow of his college in 1843. He became classical lecturer"
"of Flo and Rose"" in the United States). This book earned Munro a second Governor General's Literary Award. From 1979 to 1982, she toured Australia, China and Scandinavia for public appearances and readings. In 1980 Munro held the position of writer in residence at both the University of British Columbia and the University of Queensland. Since the 1980s, Munro has published a short-story collection at least once every four years, most recently in 2001, 2004, 2006, 2009, and 2012. First versions of Munro's stories have appeared in journals such as ""The New Yorker"", ""The Atlantic Monthly"", ""Grand Street"", ""Harper's Magazine"","
"the ""Journal of the Short Story in English (JSSE)/Les cahiers de la nouvelle"" dedicated a special issue to Munro, and in May 2012 an issue of the journal ""Narrative"" focussed on a single story by Munro, ""Passion"" (2004), with an introduction, a summary of the story, and five essays of analysis. Alice Munro publishes variant versions of her stories, sometimes within a short span of time. Her works ""Save the Reaper"" and ""Passion"" came out in two different versions in the same year, in 1998 and 2004 respectively. At the other end of the scale, two stories were republished in"
"Munro Leaf Wilbur Monroe Leaf ( Munro Leaf) (December 4, 1905 – December 21, 1976) was an American author of children's literature who wrote and illustrated nearly 40 books during his 40-year career. He is best known for ""The Story of Ferdinand"" (1936), a children's classic which he wrote on a yellow legal-length pad in less than an hour. Labeled as subversive, it stirred an international controversy. Munroe Wilbur Leaf was born on 4 December 1905, the son of Charles W Leaf (1871-1965) and Emma India Leaf in Hamilton, Maryland. Leaf had an older sister, Elizabeth W Leaf. By 1910"
"sun."" (2nd version, 1982) The Moons of Jupiter (short story) ""The Moons of Jupiter"" (1978 / 1982) is a short story by Alice Munro, the Canadian winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. It deals with how facts may change over time. The story is 17 pages in length and made up of 7 sections with the shortest section being the final one. Janet, a divorced, middle-aged writer who has become somewhat successful, is visiting her dying father in a Toronto hospital, where she had driven him the day before. She stays overnight in the apartment of her"
"""Carried Away"" and ""Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage"". Film adaptations of Munro's short stories have included ""Martha, Ruth & Edie"" (1988), ""Edge of Madness"" (2002), ""Away from Her"" (2006), ""Hateship, Loveship"" (2013) and ""Julieta"" (2016). Many of Munro's stories are set in Huron County, Ontario. Her strong regional focus is one of the features of her fiction. Another is the omniscient narrator who serves to make sense of the world. Many compare Munro's small-town settings to writers from the rural South of the United States. As in the works of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor, her characters often confront deep-rooted"
"H. C. McNeile Herman Cyril McNeile, MC (28 September 1888 – 14 August 1937), commonly known as Cyril McNeile and publishing under the name H. C. McNeile or the pseudonym Sapper, was a British soldier and author. Drawing on his experiences in the trenches during the First World War, he started writing short stories and getting them published in the ""Daily Mail"". As serving officers in the British Army were not permitted to publish under their own names, he was given the pen name ""Sapper"" by Lord Northcliffe, the owner of the ""Daily Mail""; the nickname was based on that"