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The Best of Roald Dahl
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by Roald Dahl


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Stories included: Over To You, Someone Like You, Kiss Kiss, Switch Bitch, Madame Rosette, Man from the South, The Sound Machine, Taste, Dip in the Pool, Skin, Edwards the Conqueror, Lamb to the Slaughter, Galloping Foxley,The Way up to Heaven, Parson's Pleasure, The Landlady, William and Mary, Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat, Royal Jelly, Georgy Porgy, Genesis and Catastrophe, Pig, The Visitor, Claud's Dog, The Ratcatcher, Rummins, Mr Hoddy, Mr Feasy, The Champion of the World.

From the publisher

A collection of the best short stories from a writer with "an ingenious imagination, a fascination with odd and ordinary detail, and a lust for its thorough exploitation" (The New York Times Book Review).

If Stephen King could write with murderous concision, he might have come up with "The Landlady," the story of a boarding house with an oddly talented proprietress and a small but permanent clientele. If Clive Barker had a sense of humor, he might have written "Pig," a brutally funny look at cooks and vegetarianism. And a more bloodthirsty Jorge Luis Borges might have imagined the fanatical little gambler in "Man From the South," who does his betting with a hammer, nails, and a butcher knife. But all these stories in this volume were written by Roald Dahl, whose genius for the horrific and grotesque is unparalleled and entirely his own.

From the jacket flap

This collection brings together Dahl's finest work, illustrating his genius for the horrific and grotesque which is unparalleled.
"Dahl has the mastery of plot and characters possessed by great writers of the past, along with a wildness and wryness of his own. One of his trademarks is writing beautifully about the ugly, even the horrible."--"Los Angeles Times "An ingenious imagination, a fascination with odd and ordinary detail, and a lust for its thorough exploitation are the...strengths of Dahl's storytelling."--"New York Times Book Review

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  • Title The Best of Roald Dahl
  • Author Roald Dahl
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reissue
  • Pages 528
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage, New York
  • Date 1990-07-14
  • ISBN 9780679729914 / 0679729917
  • Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.02 x 5.3 x 0.91 in (20.37 x 13.46 x 2.31 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 89040734
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

ROALD DAHL (1916-1990) was born in Llandaff, South Wales, and went to Repton School in England. His parents were Norwegian, so holidays were spent in Norway. As he explains in Boy, he turned down the idea of university in favor of a job that would take him to 'a wonderful faraway place'. In 1933 he joined the Shell Company, which sent him to Mombasa in East Africa. When World War II began in 1939 he became a fighter pilot and in 1942 was made assistant air attach in Washington, where he started to write short stories. His first major success as a writer for children was in 1964. Thereafter his children's books brought him increasing popularity, and when he died children mourned the world over, particularly in Britain where he had lived for many years.
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