The Saint and the Goblin
The Saint and the Goblin
By Hector Hugh Munro
Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 13 November 1916), 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 satirized Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward, and P. G. Wodehouse.
Beside his short stories (which were first published in newspapers, as was customary at the time, and then collected into several volumes), he 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, a fantasy about a future German invasion of Britain.
1 The short story 《The saint and the goblin》 is from the book 《Selected stories》.It is a fairy tale,the story happened in an old cathedral,there are two hero,the philanthropic Saint and the goblin who was a person of recognised importance in the cathedral world. Although the Saint with the goblin looked at most things from different points of view,but they were get on very well together.Goblin said everyone has their own functions, if you couldn't fulfil your functions. You'd be a sinecure." The Saint’s functions is feel sorry for whose life was poor, so he pities the church mice.He wants to help them .One day a bright new thaler falling in Saint’s feet that from the cathedral jackdaws who collected such things. So Saint thought if he appear to a vision to the vergeress and then the vergeress would buy a measure of corn and put it on the shrine, But when the vergeress found
By Hector Hugh Munro
Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 13 November 1916), 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 satirized Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward, and P. G. Wodehouse.
Beside his short stories (which were first published in newspapers, as was customary at the time, and then collected into several volumes), he 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, a fantasy about a future German invasion of Britain.
1 The short story 《The saint and the goblin》 is from the book 《Selected stories》.It is a fairy tale,the story happened in an old cathedral,there are two hero,the philanthropic Saint and the goblin who was a person of recognised importance in the cathedral world. Although the Saint with the goblin looked at most things from different points of view,but they were get on very well together.Goblin said everyone has their own functions, if you couldn't fulfil your functions. You'd be a sinecure." The Saint’s functions is feel sorry for whose life was poor, so he pities the church mice.He wants to help them .One day a bright new thaler falling in Saint’s feet that from the cathedral jackdaws who collected such things. So Saint thought if he appear to a vision to the vergeress and then the vergeress would buy a measure of corn and put it on the shrine, But when the vergeress found