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The Best of Roald Dahl

  • Roald Dahl

3.67

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The Best of Roald Dahl is a collection of 25 of Roald Dahl's short stories. This collection brings together Dahl’s finest work, illustrating his genius for the horrific and grotesque which is unparalleled.

Contents:

  • Madame Rosette
  • Man from the South
  • Sound Machine
  • Taste
  • Dip in the Pool
  • Skin
  • Edward the Conqueror
  • Lamb to the Slaughter
  • Galloping Foxley
  • The Way Up to Heaven
  • Parson's Pleasure
  • Landlady
  • William and Mary
  • Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat
  • Royal Jelly
  • Georgy Porgy
  • Genesis and Catastrophe
  • Pig
  • Visitor
  • Claud's Dog Ratcatcher, Rummins, Mr Hoddy, Mr Feasey, Champion of the World
  • Great Switcheroo
  • The Boy Who Talked with Animals
  • Hitchhiker
  • The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
  • Bookseller

Genres

  • gothic
  • horror
  • Booksellers and bookselling
  • Fiction
  • Extortion
  • short story
  • Hitchhiking
  • Pickpockets
  • leprosy
  • macabre
  • diners
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About the author

  • Roald Dahl

    13 September 1916 - 23 November 1990

    4.03

    1426 ratings · 708 works

Editions

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    M. Joseph

    1983

  • Edition cover

    Vintage Books ed.

    Vintage Books

    1990 07

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    Penguin Books, Limited

    2012

  • cannibalism
  • Austrian Germans
  • doctors
  • Midwives
  • English nursery rhymes
  • neurosis
  • celibacy
  • vicars
  • spinsters
  • sexual repression
  • seduction
  • abstinence
  • soft drinks
  • summer houses
  • involuntary commitment
  • psychiatrists
  • sadism
  • beekeepers
  • royal jelly
  • grubs
  • mink coats
  • pawnbrokers
  • stoles
  • cancer
  • brain
  • artificial hearts
  • Ringer's solution
  • phantom limbs
  • widows
  • Short horror story
  • cyanide
  • Chippendale Commodes
  • prefects
  • black comedy
  • detectives
  • alibi
  • Weihnachtsbaum
  • Kinderszenen
  • reincarnation
  • cats
  • World War I
  • World War II
  • begging
  • cruise ships
  • betting pools
  • caregivers
  • dementia
  • stockbrokers
  • Oenophilia
  • English Short stories
  • Literature
  • Manners and customs
  • Cadillacs
  • Fiction, short stories (single author)
  • English literature
  • Short stories