Collected Stories
By: Roald Dahl ; edited and introduced by Jeremy Treglown.
Series: Everyman's Library, 300
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf; Everyman's Library
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 850
ISBN-13: 9780307264909
Copyright date: 2006
Description: The only hardcover edition of Roald Dahl’s stories for adults, the Collected Stories amply showcases his singular gifts as a fabulist and a born storyteller.

Later known for his immortal children’s books, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and The BFG, Dahl also had a genius for adult short fiction, which he wrote throughout his life. Whether fictionalizing his dramatic exploits as a Royal Air Force pilot during World War II or concocting the ingeniously plotted fables that were dramatized on television as Tales of the Unexpected, Dahl was brilliant at provoking in his readers the overwhelming desire to know what happens next—and at satisfying that desire in ways that feel both surprising and inevitable.

Filled with devilish plot twists, his tales display a tantalizing blend of macabre humor and the absurdly grotesque. From “The Landlady,” about an unusual boardinghouse that features a small but very permanent clientele, to “Pig,” a brutally funny look at vegetarianism, to “Man from the South,” in which a fanatical gambler does his betting with hammer, nails, and a butcher’s knife, Dahl’s creations amuse and shock us in equal measure, gleefully reminding us of what might lurk beneath the surface of the ordinary.
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Table of contents: title: An African story --; title: Only this --; title: Katina --; title: Beware of the dog --; title: They shall not grow old --; title: Someone like you --; title: Death of an old old man --; title: Madame Rosette --; title: A piece of cake --; title: Yesterday was beautiful --; title: Nunc Dimittis --; title: Skin --; title: Man from the South --; title: The soldier --; title: The sound machine --; title: Mr Botibol --; title: Vengeance is Mine Inc. --; title: The wish --; title: Poison --; title: Taste --; title: Dip in the pool --; title: The great automatic grammatizator --; title: Claud's dog: The ratcatcher ; Rummins ; Mr Hoddy ; Mr Feasey --; title: My lady love, my dove --; title: Neck --; title: Lamb to the slaughter --; title: Galloping Foxley --; title: Edward the Conqueror --; title: The way up to Heaven --; title: William and Mary --; title: Parson's pleasure --; title: George Porgy --; title: Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's coat --; title: Royal jelly --; title: The champion of the world --; title: Genesis and catastrophe --; title: Pig --; title: The landlady --; title: The visitor --; title: The last act --; title: The great switcheroo --; title: The butler --; title: Bitch --; title: Ah, sweet mystery of life --; title: The hitchhiker --; title: The umbrella man --; title: The bookseller --; title: The surgeon.