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Lamb to the Slaughter" is a 1953 short story by Roald Dahl. It was initially rejected, along with four other stories, by The New Yorker, but was published in Harper's Magazine in September 1953. [1] It was adapted for an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (AHP) that starred Barbara Bel Geddes and Harold J. Stone.
Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected is a collection of 16 short stories written by British author Roald Dahl and first published in 1979. All of the stories were earlier published in various magazines, and then in the collections Someone Like You and Kiss Kiss .
Groff Conklin called Someone Like You "certainly the most distinguished book of short stories of 1953 ... all superb". [2] Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas praised the collection's "subtly devastating murder stories [as well as] two biting science-fantasties, plus a few unclassifiable gems" and concluded the volume "belong[ed] on your shelves somewhere in the Beerbohm/Collier/Saki section".
Each of Dahl's iconic stories taught us about life, love, and finding ourselves in the unlikeliest of places. Here are some lessons we learned from five of his most famous stories and scripts. 1.
Roald Dahl [a] (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British author of popular children's literature and short stories, a poet, screenwriter and a wartime fighter ace.
Offensive words and phrases have been edited out of new Puffin editions of Roald Dahl's children books like "Matilda" and "James and the Giant Peach."
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The Best of Roald Dahl: stories from Over to You, Someone Like You, Kiss Kiss, Switch Bitch. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 978-0394725499. — (1986). The Roald Dahl Omnibus. New York: Dorset Press. ISBN 978-0880291248. — (1991). The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl. London: Michael Joseph. ISBN 978-0708987421. — (2006).