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In the introduction to Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories, a collection of fourteen stories by other writers that he chose as the genre's best, Dahl states that he had always wanted to write a ghost story but had never quite been able to. The closest he came was with "The Landlady", but after reading it through he decided that he had not ...
Kiss Kiss is a collection of short stories by Roald Dahl, ... "The Landlady" (first appeared in The New Yorker magazine, November 28, 1959 [1]) "William and Mary"
Roald Dahl was born in 1916 at Villa Marie, Fairwater Road, in Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales, to Norwegians Harald Dahl and Sofie Magdalene Dahl (née Hesselberg). [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Dahl's father, a wealthy shipbroker and self-made man , had emigrated to Britain from Sarpsborg , Norway and settled in Cardiff in the 1880s with his first wife, Frenchwoman ...
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Each episode features a dramatised story that has been adapted from the works of several well-known writers, most notably, Roald Dahl. During the course of the programme, 112 episodes of Tales of the Unexpected aired over nine series, between 24 March 1979 and 13 May 1988.
Wes Anderson’s brand of straight-faced weirdness can be an acquired taste, but the writer-director finds a hospitable outlet for his sense of whimsy in “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar ...
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).
Salman Rushdie has spoken out against recent reports that passages have been rewritten in some of Roald Dahl’s books to remove language that may be considered offensive.. A report on Friday 17 ...