The Umbrella Man and Other Stories
By: Roald Dahl.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780670878543
Copyright date: 1996
Subjects: Short stories, English
Description: What could be wrong with a sweet-tempered landlady who offers the cheapest, cleanest, coziest quarters? Ask any of her tenants -- if you can dig one up. Why does a husband's increasing devotion to his frail child send his wife into paroxysms of horror? How much will people pay for vengeance?

These thirteen tales grab you from the start, hold you fast--and then throw all your expectations out the window with surprise-twist endings that are immensely satisfying. Before Roald Dahl became a master of stories for children, he was a master of adult short stories. His several popular anthologies showcase his skills as an ingenious sleight-of-hand artist. Wendy Cooling specially selected the stories in this collection as an introduction for teenagers to the adult writing of one of the world's greatest storytellers. By turns macabre, hilarious, and grotesque, these stories are filled with unexpected delights and the always expected Dahl brilliance.
--front flap
Notes: US/CAN
Table of contents: title: The great automatic grammatizator --; title: Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's coat --; title: The butler --; title: Man from the south --; title: The landlady --; title: Parson's pleasure --; title: The umbrella man --; title: Katina --; title: The way up to Heaven --; title: Royal jelly --; title: Vengeance is mine inc. --; title: Taste --; title: Neck.