Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl: v. 1 (Charnwood Library) - Softcover
A complete collection of short stories, many of them known from the television series, "Tales of the Unexpected". The book contains "Over to You", "Kiss Kiss", "Someone Like You", "Switch Bitch" and four or five additional stories.
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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"
"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:
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
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.
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- PublisherLinford (Large Print)
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0708987427
- ISBN 13 9780708987421
- BindingPaperback
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