This title contains stories including: "The Landlady", "William and Mary", "The Way up to Heaven", "Parson's Pleasures", "Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat", "Royal Jelly", "Gregory Progy", "Genesis and Catastrophe", "Edwards the Conqueror", "Pig", and "The Champion of the World".
De Giraffe, de Peli en Ik is een kinderboek van Roald Dahl uit 1985. Het verhaal gaat over de vriendschap tussen een giraffe, een pelikaan, een aap en een jongen.
Switch Bitch is a 1974 short story collection for adults by Roald Dahl. The book is made up of four stories: "The Visitor," "The Great Switcheroo," "The Last Act," and "Bitch". Each story deals in some way with sex and deception. Furthermore, "The Visitor" contains the first appearance of Uncle Oswald, who appears …
De reuzenkrokodil is een kort verhaal van Roald Dahl met tekeningen van Quentin Blake. Het gaat over een krokodil die kinderen wil opeten.
Oom Oswald is een boek van Roald Dahl, dat in 1979 uitkwam. Het boek gaat over de Engelse rokkenjager, schurk en bon vivant Oswald Hendryks Cornelius, die behalve dol op vrouwen ook dol is op geld. Hij bedenkt een plan om rijk te worden met behulp van een krachtig afrodisiacum en een revolutionaire manier om sperma op …
The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl is a 1991 short story collection for adults by Roald Dahl. The collection contains many of Dahl's stories seen in the television series Tales of the Unexpected. Containing macabre malevolence, the collection includes Switch Bitch, Kiss, Kiss, Someone Like You, Twenty-Nine …
There's the gambler who collects little fingers from losers...there's the lady who murders her husband with a frozen leg of lamb...not to mention the man who has made a machine that can hear grass scream...Roald Dahl's particular brand of bizarre, alarming and disturbing story-telling has already attracted a huge …
Skin and Other Stories is a collection of short stories written by Roald Dahl. It was published in 2000 by Puffin Books, a division of Penguin Putnam Books. Many these stories first appeared in the Dahl book, Someone Like You, and also includes the story "The Surgeon," originally published in Playboy magazine in 1986.
Who better to investigate the literary spirit world than that supreme connoisseur of the unexpected, Roald Dahl? Of the many permutations of the macabre or bizarre, Dahl was always especially fascinated by the classic ghost story. As he realtes in the erudite introduction to this volume, he read some 749 supernatural …