The Best of Roald Dahl
About this book
The Best of Roald Dahl is a collection of 25 of Roald Dahl's short stories. This collection brings together Dahl’s finest work, illustrating his genius for the horrific and grotesque which is unparalleled.
Contents:
- Madame Rosette
- Man from the South
- Sound Machine
- Taste
- Dip in the Pool
- Skin
- Edward the Conqueror
- Lamb to the Slaughter
- Galloping Foxley
- The Way Up to Heaven
- Parson's Pleasure
- Landlady
- William and Mary
- Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat
- Royal Jelly
- Georgy Porgy
- Genesis and Catastrophe
- Pig
- Visitor
- Claud's Dog Ratcatcher, Rummins, Mr Hoddy, Mr Feasey, Champion of the World
- Great Switcheroo
- The Boy Who Talked with Animals
- Hitchhiker
- The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
- Bookseller
Subjects
- abstinence
- alibi
- artificial hearts
- austrian germans
- beekeepers
- black comedy
- booksellers and bookselling
- brain
- cancer
- cannibalism
- celibacy
- chippendale commodes
- cyanide
- detectives
- diners
- doctors
- english nursery rhymes
- extortion
- fiction
- gothic
- grubs
- hitchhiking
- horror
- involuntary commitment
- kinderszenen
- leprosy
- macabre
- midwives
- mink coats
- neurosis
- pawnbrokers
- phantom limbs
- pickpockets
- prefects
- psychiatrists
- reincarnation
- ringer's solution
- royal jelly
- sadism
- seduction
- sexual repression
- short horror story
- short story
- soft drinks
- spinsters
- stoles
- summer houses
- vicars
- weihnachtsbaum
- widows