The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl

A collector's item containing all the stories from Roald Dahl's world-famous books-Over to You, Someone like You, Kiss Kiss and Switch Bitch-plus eight tales of the unexpected

'The absolute master of the twist-in-the-tale' Observer

'Roald Dahl is one of the few writers whose work can accurately be described as addictive' Irish Times

'These stories pack their punch . . . [The] repeated serving right of villains never quite softens the hard-boiled, even cynical, strain in Dahl's vision of humanity, and it's that ruthless unsentimentalism that is Dahl's greatest attraction' Observer

'Dahl is too good a storyteller to become predictable, so you never know whether the tyrant or the tyrannized will win in the end' Daily Telegraph

About the Author

Roald Dahl (1916–1990) was born in Llandaff, South Wales, and went to Repton School in England. His parents were Norwegian, so holidays were spent in Norway. As he explains in Boy, he turned down the idea of university in favor of a job that would take him to “a wonderful faraway place.” In 1933 he joined the Shell Company, which sent him to Mombasa in East Africa. When World War II began in 1939, he became a fighter pilot and in 1942 was made assistant air attaché in Washington, where he started to write short stories. His first major success as a writer for children was in 1964. Thereafter his children’s books brought him increasing popularity, and when he died, children mourned the world over, particularly in Britain where he had lived for many years.

Author            : Roald Dahl 

Publisher      ‏  : Penguin

Binding Type  : Paperback 

Language       : English 

ISBN-13         ‏ : ‎ 978-0140158076