An edition of Collected Short Stories [51 stories] (1991)

The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl

an omnibus volume containing: ; Kiss, kiss ; Over to you ; Switch bitch ; Someone like you ; and eight further tales of the unexpected.

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An edition of Collected Short Stories [51 stories] (1991)

The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl

an omnibus volume containing: ; Kiss, kiss ; Over to you ; Switch bitch ; Someone like you ; and eight further tales of the unexpected.

by

  • ★★★ ★ 3.67 ·
  • 6 Ratings
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  • 12 Have read

The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl is a 1991 short story collection for adults by Roald Dahl. 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 Mystery of Life: The Country Stories of Roald Dahl (1989).

Contains 51 stories (order varies by edition):

From Kiss Kiss
Landlady
William and Mary
The Way Up to Heaven
Parson's Pleasure
Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat
Royal Jelly
Georgy Porgy
Genesis and Catastrophe
Edward the Conqueror
Pig
Champion of the World

From Over to You
Death of an Old, Old Man
An African Story
A Piece of Cake
Madame Rosette
Katina
Yesterday Was Beautiful
They Shall Not Grow Old
Beware of the Dog
Only This
Someone Like You

From Switch Bitch
Visitor
Great Switcheroo
Last Act
Bitch

From Someone Like You
Taste
Lamb to the Slaughter
Man from the South
The Soldier
My Lady Love, My Dove
Dip in the Pool
Galloping Foxley
Skin
Poison
Wish
Neck
Sound Machine
Nunc Dimittis
Great Automatic Grammatizator
Claud's Dog
Ratcatcher
Rummins
Mr Hoddy
Mr Feasey

Eight Further Tales of the Unexpected
The umbrella man --
Mr Botibol --
Vengeance is Mine Inc. --
The butler --
Ah, sweet mystery of life --
Bookseller
Hitchhiker
The surgeon

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Michael Joseph
Language
English

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Subjects
Short stories, Fiction Classics, Gothic & Horror, fiction, Hitchhiking, Pickpockets, Booksellers and bookselling, Extortion, short story, caviar, Bungarus, World War I, World War II, begging, prefects, cruise ships, betting pools, caregivers, dementia, Cadillacs, Social life and customs, stockbrokers, Oenophilia, horror, black comedy, detectives, alibi, flashback, olfaction, chemists, funding, research, sexology, boxing, sexual intercourse, cardiovascular disease, breasts, safety pins, English Short stories, Literature, rape by deception, hobbyists, leprosy, gynecology, martinis, menopause, English literature, macabre, diners, cannibalism, Weihnachtsbaum, Kinderszenen, reincarnation, cats, 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, Short horror stories, cyanide, cancer, brain, artificial hearts, Ringer's solution, phantom limbs, widows, Chippendale CommodesWorld War II, Royal Air Force, resistance to interrogation, hard water, soft water, World War, Aeronautics, Air pilots in fiction, Air pilots, Aeronautics in fiction, Young Adult, Fiction, short stories (single author), New York Times reviewed, Children's fiction
People
narrator, hitchhiker, William Buggage, Miss Tottle, Mr Hoddy, Mr Feasey, Lionel Lampson, Gladys Ponsonby, Janet de Pelagia, John Royden, Basil Turton, Natalia Turton, Major Haddock, Jelks, Henry Moore, Harry Pope, Timber Woods, Dr. Ganderbai, Drioli, Chaim Soutine, Josie, Mike Schofield, Richard Pratt, Louise Schofield, Mary Maloney, Patrick Maloney, Carlos, William Botibol, William Perkins, Bruce Foxley, Oswald Hendryks Cornelius, Henri Biotte, Pierre Lacaille, Simone, Marcel Brossolet, Elvira Ponsomby, Daughters of the American Revolution, Abdul Aziz, Jerry Rainbow, Samantha Rainbow, Vic Hammond, Mary Hammond, Anna Cooper, Ed, Conrad Kreuger, God, Peter Williamson, Lexington, Aunt Glosspan, Mr. Zuckermann, Claud, Edward, Louisa, Antonio Vivaldi, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahm, Epictetus, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore Roosevelt, Julius Caesar, Frédéric Chopin, 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, Billy Weaver, Christopher Mulholland, Gregory W. Temple, William Pearl, Mary Pearl, Landy, Eugene Foster, Mrs Foster, Cyril Boggis, Bert, Rummins
Places
London, Epsom, Derby Day, Buggage's Rare Book Shop, Europe, Fleet Street, England, Mike Schofield's house, Jamaica, Paris, Céret, Le Havre, Bristol Hotel, Cannes, Buenos Aires, India, British Empire, Arabia, Syria, Cairo, New York, Dallas, Texas, Belguim, Provence, United States of America, Waldorf Astoria, Eton College, Cambridge, Chelsea, Buckinghamshire, New York City, Baltimore, Africa, Greece, Great Britain, Vichy France, Brighton
Times
20th century, 1941-45, 1946, 1960s, Autumn 1913, 1975

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Cover of: Collected Stories
Collected Stories
October 17, 2006, Everyman's Library
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Cover of: The Collected Short Stories Of Roald Dahl
The Collected Short Stories Of Roald Dahl
1992, Penguin Books
Paperback in English - printing (10)
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Cover of: The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl
The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl: an omnibus volume containing: ; Kiss, kiss ; Over to you ; Switch bitch ; Someone like you ; and eight further tales of the unexpected.
1991, Michael Joseph
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