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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100307264904
ISBN-139780307264909
eBay Product ID (ePID)52767513
Product Key Features
Book TitleCollected Stories of Roald Dahl : Introduction by Jeremy Treglown
TopicHumorous / Black Humor, Horror, Short Stories (Single Author)
Publication Year2006
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
AuthorRoald Dahl
Book SeriesEveryman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser., Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.9in
Item Length8.2in
Item Width5.2in
Item Weight31.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN2006-046523
Intended AudienceTrade
Reviews"With the inventive power of a Thomas Edison and the imagination of a Lewis Carroll . . . Roald Dahl is a wizard of comedy and the grotesque, an artist with a marvelously topsy-turvy sense of the ridiculous in life." --CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER "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 "A collection of Roald Dahl stories is always occasion for applause." --CHICAGO DAILY NEWS "An ingenious imagination, a fascination with odd and ordinary detail . . . are the first strengths of Dahl's storytelling." --NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "[Dahl's] stare is unblinking, and most of his tales are irritants, provocations. Fantastic as Grimm, neat as O. Henry, heartless as Saki, they stick in the mind long after subtler ones have faded: incredible (literally), unforgettable, and vengefully funny." --from the Introduction by Jeremy Treglown, "With the inventive power of a Thomas Edison and the imagination of a Lewis Carroll . . . Roald Dahl is a wizard of comedy and the grotesque, an artist with a marvelously topsy-turvy sense of the ridiculous in life." CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER "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 "A collection of Roald Dahl stories is always occasion for applause." CHICAGO DAILY NEWS "An ingenious imagination, a fascination with odd and ordinary detail . . . are the first strengths of Dahl's storytelling." NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "[Dahl's] stare is unblinking, and most of his tales are irritants, provocations. Fantastic as Grimm, neat as O. Henry, heartless as Saki, they stick in the mind long after subtler ones have faded: incredible (literally), unforgettable, and vengefully funny." from the Introduction by Jeremy Treglown, "With the inventive power of a Thomas Edison and the imagination of a Lewis Carroll . . . Roald Dahl is a wizard of comedy and the grotesque, an artist with a marvelously topsy-turvy sense of the ridiculous in life." -CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER "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 "A collection of Roald Dahl stories is always occasion for applause." -CHICAGO DAILY NEWS "An ingenious imagination, a fascination with odd and ordinary detail . . . are the first strengths of Dahl's storytelling." -NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "[Dahl's] stare is unblinking, and most of his tales are irritants, provocations. Fantastic as Grimm, neat as O. Henry, heartless as Saki, they stick in the mind long after subtler ones have faded: incredible (literally), unforgettable, and vengefully funny." -from the Introduction by Jeremy Treglown
Dewey Edition22
Publication Date2006-10-17
Introduction byJeremy Treglown
Dewey Decimal823/.914
Lc Classification NumberPr6054.A35a6 2006
Table of ContentIntroduction by Jeremy Treglown Select Bibliography Chronology An African Story Only This Katina Beware of the Dog They Shall Not Grow Old Someone Like You Death of an Old Old Man Madame Rosette A Piece of Cake Yesterday Was Beautiful Nunc Dimittis Skin Man from the South The Soldier The Sound Machine Mr Botibol Vengeance Is Mine Inc. The Wish Poison Taste Dip in the Pond The Great Automatic Grammatizator Claud's Dog: --The Ratcatcher --Rummins --Mr Hoddy --Mr Feasey My Lady Love, My Dove Neck Lamb to Slaughter Gallopin Foxley Edward the Conqueror The Way Up to Heaven William and Mary Parson's Pleasure Georgy Porgy Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat Royal Jelly The Champion of the World Genesis and Catastrophe Pig The Landlady The Visitor The Last Act The Great Switcheroo The Butler Bitch Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life The Hitchhiker The Umbrella Man The Bookseller The Surgeon Appendix: Dates of Composition and First Publication
Number of Pages888 Pages