Collected Short Stories

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Collected Short Stories

Roald Dahl

Medium Paperback

Some wear

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 . . .
~from the back cover

Kiss, kiss
*The 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
*The champion of the world

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

Switch bitch
*The visitor
*The great Switcheroo
*The last act
*Bitch

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
*The wish
*Neck
*The sound machine
*Nunc dimittis
*The great automatic grammatizator
*Claud's dog

Eight Further Tales of the Unexpected
*The umbrella man
*Mr Botibol
*Vengeance is Mine Inc.
*The butler
*Ah, sweet mystery of life
*The bookseller
*The hitchhiker
The surgeon

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