The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl: An Omnibus Volume Containing KISS KISS, Over to You, Switch Bitch, Someone Like You, And Eight Further Tales of the Unexpected - Hardcover

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0718135458 ISBN 13: 9780718135454

Publisher: Michael Joseph, 1991

Synopsis

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.

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:

Roald Dahl was a spy, ace fighter pilot, chocolate historian and medical inventor. He was also the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG and many more brilliant stories. He remains THE WORLD'S NUMBER ONE STORYTELLER.

About this edition

• Publisher: Michael Joseph
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0718135458
• ISBN 13: 9780718135454
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 768