The Complete Short Stories. Volume One 1944-1953

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2013
Edition: Reprint

Description: 596 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear and age marks on the inside page present, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: The Complete Short Stories of Roald Dahl in the first of two unsettling and sinister volumes.They are brutal. these stories. and yet you finish reading each one with a smile. or maybe even a hollow laugh. certainly a shiver of gratification. because the conclusion always seems so right Charlie Higson. from his introduction.Roald Dahl is one of the most popular writers of the modern age. effortlessly writing for children and adults alike.In this. the first of two volumes chronologically collecting all his published adult short stories. we see how Dahl began by using his experiences in the war to write fiction but quickly turned to his powerful and dark imagination to pen some of the most unsettling and disquieting tales ever written.

ISBN: 9781405910101