The Collected Short Stories
Edition: printing (36)
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1992
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 762
ISBN-13: 9780140158076
Copyright date: 1991
Description: Containing all the stories from Roald Dahl's world-famous books – Over to You, Someone Like you, Kiss Kiss and Switch Bitch – plus eight further tales of the unexpected, this is the definitive collection by one of the great masters of the short story. Macabre, unsettling and deliciously enjoyable, these stories make the perfect bedtime read – but be warned, once you've started reading you won't be able to stop . . .
~from the back cover
Notes: UK Edition
Table of contents: title: Kiss, kiss; title: The landlady; title: William and Mary; title: The way up to heaven; title: Parson's pleasure; title: Mrs Bixby and the colonel's coat; title: Royal jelly; title: Georgy Porgy; title: Genesis and Catastrophe; title: Edward the Conqueror; title: Pig; title: The champion of the world; title: Over to you; title: Death of an old old man; title: An African story; title: A piece of cake; title: Madame Rosette; title: Katina; title: Yesterday was beautiful; title: They shall not grow old; title: Beware of the dog; title: Only this; title: Someone like you; title: Switch bitch; title: The visitor; title: The great Switcheroo; title: The last act; title: Bitch; title: Someone like you; title: Taste; title: Lamb to the slaughter; title: Man from the south; title: The soldier; title: My lady love, my dove; title: Dip in the pool; title: Galloping Foxley; title: Skin; title: Poison; title: The wish; title: Neck; title: The sound machine; title: Nunc dimittis; title: The great automatic grammatizator; title: Claud's dog; title: Eight Further Tales of the Unexpected; title: The umbrella man; title: Mr Botibol; title: Vengeance is Mine Inc.; title: The butler; title: Ah, sweet mystery of life; title: The bookseller; title: The hitchhiker; title: The surgeon