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An edition of The Best of Roald Dahl [20 stories] (1978)

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Perfect bedtime stories for those who relish sleepless nights.

Twenty tales to curdle your blood and scorch your soul, chosen from his bestsellers—Over to You, Someone Like You, Kiss Kiss and Switch Bitch.

Hypnotized from the first sentence, you will remain spellbound as Roald Dahl unravels his fiendish fictions with their satisfying twist-in-the-tale finales, as he leads you through the dangers of gambling for high stakes over wine, the perils of being vegetarian and the macabre consequences of a night-time seduction.
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Penguin Books
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English
Pages
367

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Subjects

leprosy, macabre, short story, diners, 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, horror, black comedy, fiction, detectives, alibi, Weihnachtsbaum, Kinderszenen, reincarnation, cats, World War I, World War II, begging, short stories, Cadillacs, stockbrokers, Oenophilia, cruise ships, betting pools, caregivers, dementia, Fiction, short stories (single author)

People

Mr Hoddy, Mr Feasey, Claud, Oswald Hendryks Cornelius, Abdul Aziz, Lexington, Aunt Glosspan, Mr. Zuckermann, Klara Hitler, Otto Hitler, Gustav Hitler, Ida Hitler, Alois Hitler, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), George, Lady Birdwell, Miss Roach, Albert Taylor, Mabel Taylor, Mrs. Bixby, Colonel, Miss Pulteney, William Pearl, Mary Pearl, Landy, Billy Weaver, Christopher Mulholland, Gregory W. Temple, Cyril Boggis, Bert, Rummins, Eugene Foster, Mrs Foster, William Perkins, Bruce Foxley, Mary Maloney, Patrick Maloney, Edward, Louisa, Antonio Vivaldi, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahm, Epictetus, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore Roosevelt, Julius Caesar, Frédéric Chopin, Carlos, Klausner, Mike Schofield, Richard Pratt, Louise Schofield, William Botibol, Drioli, Chaim Soutine, Josie, narrator

Places

Arabia, Syria, Cairo, New York City, New York, Baltimore, Eton College, Cambridge, Chelsea, London, Buckinghamshire, Paris, Jamaica, Mike Schofield's house, Céret, Le Havre, Bristol Hotel, Cannes, Buenos Aires

Times

Autumn 1913, 1946

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Cover of: The Best of Roald Dahl
The Best of Roald Dahl
2009, Penguin Group UK
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The Best Of Roald Dahl
2006, Penguin Books Ltd, Penguin
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The Best of Roald Dahl
1986, Penguin Books
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The Best of Roald Dahl: stories from Over to you, Someone like you, Kiss kiss, Switch bitch
1978-05, Vintage Books
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Table of Contents

MADAME ROSETTE
MAN FROM THE SOUTH
THE 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
THE LANDLADY
WILLIAM AND MARY
MRS arxny AND THE COLONEL'S COAT
ROYAL JELLY
GEORGY PORGY
GENESIS ANO CATASTROPHE
PIG
THE VISITOR
CLAUD'S DOG
The Ratcatcher
Rummins
Mr Hoddy
Mr Feasey
The Champion of the World

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UK/AUST/NZ

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Copyright Date
1986

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Format
Paperback
Pagination
367p.
Number of pages
367
Dimensions
7.8 x 5 x 1.1 inches
Weight
9.4 ounces

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OL9301578M
Internet Archive
bestofroalddahl0000dahl
ISBN 10
0140066942
ISBN 13
9780140066944
Library Thing
38459
Goodreads
55771254

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