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Reginald On House-Parties and Other Stories By Saki
Read by Keith Baxter
Caedmon USA
Cat# 1386
Still in original shrink wrap-only opened and played once to record the audio sample!
Cover has a small amount of surface wear through the shrink wrap due to its antiquity; 4" of splitting along the top edge near the middle.
Tracks:
1. Reginald House-Parties
2. Gabriel-Ernest
3. Esme
4. The Quest
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About Saki (H. H. Munro)
Hector Hugh Munro, or Saki was a satirist and author with a taste for the witty and outrageous. Saki wrote most of his best work for newspapers such as the Westminster Gazette, Daily Express, Bystander, Morning Post and Outlook. A master of the short story, Saki entertains like few other writers do at the first reading. It is on subsequent readings that one is made aware of the sheer beauty and ease of Saki's language.
Saki was eminently capable of saving an entire discipline from a doddering reputation. His varied interests are apparent in his political satires, short stories and plays. Saki loved wild animals and had a knack of finding the most interesting individuals and places wherever he went.
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Keith Baxter (born April 29, 1933) is a Welsh theatre, film, and television actor.
Born in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, Baxter studied at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. He made his film debut in the 1957 remake of The Barretts of Wimpole Street.
In 1960, Orson Welles selected Baxter to portray Prince Hal in his stage production Chimes at Midnight, which combined portions of the Shakespearean plays Henry IV, Part I, Henry IV, Part II, Henry V, Richard II, and The Merry Wives of Windsor and brought the comic figure of Falstaff to the forefront of a primarily tragic tale. Baxter repeated his performance in the 1965 film version.
In 1961, he made his Broadway debut as King Henry VIII in A Man for All Seasons.
Baxter's television work includes appearances in Gideon's Way, The Avengers, Hawaii Five-O, and the mini-series Merlin.
Baxter currently is an Associate Member of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.
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An excerpt from the text:
"The drawback is, one never really KNOWS one's hosts and hostesses. One gets to know their fox-terriers and their chrysanthemums, and whether the story about the go-cart can be turned loose in the drawing-room, or must be told privately to each member of the party, for fear of shocking public opinion; but one's host and hostess are a sort of human hinterland that one never has the time to explore..."
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