The Complete Short Stories: Volume One

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Includes the stories “Poison” and “The Ratcatcher,” soon to be short films from Wes Anderson on Netflix Es verdaderamente entrañable deleitarse siendo niño con las historias infantiles de Roald Dahl. Después te sometes - ¿o te someten? - a algo que llaman crecimiento y vas recordando con lastimosa nostalgia la suerte de Charlie o la gran inteligencia de Matilda, recordando que fueron grandes historias pero que esos zapatos te han quedado pequeños. Pero cuando llegas a adulto, las historias de Dahl están todavía esperándote en un formato más adecuado. Menuda sorpresa, qué increíble colección de cuentos para llevarse a los ojos... Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2022-12-10 14:08:44 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA40791610 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

Information on identifying editions is from Richard Walker’s “Roald Dahl – A Guide to Collecting His First Editions”. He lapses into Wodehousian aplomb, relishing insane levels of detail in one of the masterpieces of the collection, called “Taste.” Other standouts include “The Ratcatcher, Mr. Hoddy, Madame Rosette, Galloping Foxley, William and Mary, Georgy Porgy, Pig, The Landlady, The Visitor, & The Last Act.” In his adult fiction, Dahl rolls up his sleeves, wipes away the creamy kiddie layer and lets it hang out in all its macabre glory. Even a sweet story like a boy going to live with his vegetarian grandmother, like in The Witches, turned out to have a far more horrifying result than I expected. I'm glad you liked it," the cook said. "But to be quite honest, I think that it was a bit of pig. In fact, I'm almost sure it was."

Roald Dahl's fascination with the twisted and the grotesque can definitely be seen in his works for children, and in his adult fiction is laid bare in glorious form, with one added element necessarily absent from his children's fiction- some of his adult stories are what might be described as 'fruity'. Not out of character for the author, I've come to understand, and you'll see it in stories like 'Switch Bitch' and any of his stories involving Uncle Oswald, a blatant Author Avatar (thank you TV Tropes). Containing all the stories from Roald Dahl's world-famous books – Over to You, Someone Like you, Kiss Kiss and Switch Bitch – plus eight further tales of the unexpected, this is the definitive collection by one of the great masters of the short story. Macabre, unsettling and deliciously enjoyable, these stories make the perfect bedtime read – but be warned, once you've started reading you won't be able to stop . . .

Description: Charles Dance leads the cast as the urbane Storyteller in dramatisations of five classic tales by Roald Dahl. Bizarre and amusing by turns, these dark comedies are justly famous for their surprise endings, and for their rogues gallery of crooks, cheats and schemers.El gran cambiazo: dos hombres casados deciden intercambiarse a sus mujeres una noche sin que ellas lo adviertan, invirtiendo mucho tiempo en la preparación minuciosa del acto.

Later known for his immortal children’s books, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and The BFG, 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.Dahl’s adult stories are not as famous as his children’s books. Taken as a whole, The Collected Stories is as impressive as Saki’s Complete Works if you ask me.