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The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl is a 1991 short story collection for adults by Roald Dahl. [1] The collection containing tales of macabre malevolence comprises many of Dahl's stories seen in the television series Tales of the Unexpected and previously collected in Someone Like You (1953), Kiss, Kiss (1960), Twenty-Nine Kisses from Roald Dahl (1969), Switch Bitch (1974), and Ah, Sweet ...
Switch Bitch (1974) is a book of adult short stories by British writer Roald Dahl.Four stories, originally published in Playboy between 1965 and 1974, [1] are collected. They are linked by themes of rape by deception: in each one, some major act of cunning, cruelty, or hedonism underpins the sexuality.
Read an entire short story from Amor Towles' new book: 'The DiDomenico Fragment' Lunch at La Maison. The only advantage to growing old is that one loses one’s appetites. After the age of sixty ...
Roald Dahl: Collected Stories is a hardcover edition of short-stories by Roald Dahl for adults. It was published in the US in October 2006 by Random House as part of the Everyman Library. It includes all Roald Dahl's stories in chronological order as established by Dahl's biographer, Jeremy Treglown, in consultation with the Dahl estate.
The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 1: 1959 Nyarlathotep (short story) H. P. Lovecraft: The United Amateur: 1920 Old Hundredth (short story) Brian Aldiss: Airs of the Earth 1963 Old MacDonald Had a Farm (short story) Mike Resnick: Asimov's Science Fiction: 2001 Old Man in New World: Olaf Stapledon: 1994 Old Music and the Slave ...
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. [1]
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".
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).