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The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl

by Roald Dahl
$21.62
The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl - Thryft
The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl - Thryft
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl

by Roald Dahl
$21.62
ISBN: 9780140158076
Authors: Roald Dahl
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date of Publication: 1992-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Fantasy, Horror
Related Topics: Fantasy, Classics
Goodreads rating: 4.39
(rated by 7174 readers)

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 coverKiss, kiss*The landlady*William and Mary*The way up to heaven*Parson's pleasure*Mrs Bixby and the colonel's coat*Royal jelly*Georgy Porgy*Genesis and Catastrophe*Edward the Conqueror*Pig*The champion of the worldOver to you*Death of an old old man*An African story*A piece of cake*Madame Rosette*Katina*Yesterday was beautiful*They shall not grow old*Beware of the dog*Only this*Someone like you Switch bitch*The visitor*The great Switcheroo*The last act*BitchSomeone like you*Taste*Lamb to the slaughter*Man from the south*The soldier*My lady love, my dove*Dip in the pool*Galloping Foxley *Skin*Poison*The wish*Neck*The sound machine*Nunc dimittis*The great automatic grammatizator*Claud's dogEight Further Tales of the Unexpected*The umbrella man*Mr Botibol*Vengeance is Mine Inc.*The butler*Ah, sweet mystery of life*The bookseller*The hitchhikerThe surgeon
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Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.