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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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Collected Stories
October 17, 2006, Everyman's Library
Hardcover
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0307264904 9780307264909
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Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl
2002, Pearson Education, Limited
in English
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The Collected Short Stories
1992, Penguin Books
Paperback
in English
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0140158073 9780140158076
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