Selected Short Stories by Roald Dahl


Selected Short Stories
Title : Selected Short Stories
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ISBN : -
Language : English
Format Type : Kindle Edition
Number of Pages : 285
Publication : First published January 29, 2012

Later known for his immortal children’s books, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, The BFG, and Matilda, Roald Dahl also had a genius for adult short fiction, which he wrote throughout his life. Whether fictionalizing his dramatic exploits as a Royal Air Force pilot during World War II or concocting the ingeniously plotted fables that were dramatized on television as Tales of the Unexpected, Dahl was brilliant at provoking in his readers the overwhelming desire to know what happens next—and at satisfying that desire in ways that feel both surprising and inevitable.

In this collection:

-A Fine Son
-Death of an Old Man
-Parson’s Pleasure
-Poison
-The Hitch-Hiker
-The Wish
-Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat
-Dip in the Pool
-The Landlady
-Skin
-Lamb to the Slaughter
-Man from the South
-The Way Up to Heavan
-The Umbrella Man
-Taste
-The Swan
-William and Mary

Filled with devilish plot twists, his tales display a tantalizing blend of macabre humor and the absurdly grotesque. Dahl’s creations amuse and shock us in equal measure, gleefully reminding us of what might lurk beneath the surface of the ordinary.

Selected Short Stories Reviews

  • Angie

    I grew up reading Roald Dahl's fancifully twisted children's books, so when, at a bookstore in Paris, I came upon his collected short stories I simply had to have it! Little did I know, Dahl's brilliant ability to weave a mesmerizing story out of disturbingly twisted subjects extended to an adult level. I felt transported and hypnotized by most of his short stories. Many are macabre. Most have unexpected twists and turns that keep you gasping. But all reflect his iconic storytelling abilities and unapologetically wicked sense of humor.

  • Becky

    I had no idea that Roald Dahl was so creepy.

  • Bahman Bahman

    Roald Dahl (September 13, 1916 to November 23, 1990) was a British author who penned 19 children's books over his decades-long writing career. In 1953 he published the best-selling story collection Someone Like You and married actress Patricia Neal. He published the popular book James and the Giant Peach in 1961. In 1964 he released another highly successful work, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which was later adapted for two films.

  • Riya

    I'll start with this.. I love you Roald Dahl, you weirdo. The last book from Dahl that I had read before this one was Charlie and Chocolate factory, hence I decided to revive some Roald Dahl brilliance 10 years later. While I started reading this book with a pink childlike eagerness in my eyes, I was lead to a series of really twisted stories, some of which made me feel like I was being lunged off the roof top in my sleep. Well this book left me petrified, startled, impressed, happy, romantic, melanchilic all at once sometimes. I read some of the stories again and again and excerpts from this book crawl up my brain sometimes in different life situations.

  • Nia Nymue

    I don't like the army stories. I like the stories in his later collections most.

  • Shashank Singh

    Apart from the army stories, everything else is a brilliant collection. The stories of his philandering uncle who left him his chronicles are the most amusing.

  • Jenny Burridge

    Excellent.

  • Nadieh

    The stories weren't really my thing.