The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl - Softcover

Dahl, Roald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140158073 ISBN 13: 9780140158076

Publisher: Penguin, 1992

Synopsis

A complete collection of the superb short stories which have appeared in: Over To You, Kiss Kiss, Someone Like You, Switch Bitch and eight further stories: The Umberella man; Mr Botibol; Vengeance in Mine inc; The Butler; Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life; The Bookseller; The Hitchhiker, The Surgeon.

About this title

Review:

"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

About the Author:

From the publication of James and the Giant Peach and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in the 1960s to his death in 1990, Roald Dahl became the most successful children’s author in the world. Nearly twenty years later, a fresh generation of children seek out his work with instinctive fanaticism. His creations endure - through Hollywood movies, theatre adaptations and musical works, but still most potently of all through the pure magic of his writing upon the page.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0140158073
• ISBN 13: 9780140158076
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 768