The collected short stories of Roald Dahl

By: Dahl, RoaldMaterial type: BookBookPublication details: Gurugram Penguin Random House 2016Description: 826pISBN: 9780140158076Subject(s): Short stories, English | Short stories | English fiction | Dahl, RoaldDDC classification: 823.914 Summary: 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. https://penguin.co.in/book/the-collected-short-stories-of-roald-dahl/
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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.


https://penguin.co.in/book/the-collected-short-stories-of-roald-dahl/

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