The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl

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The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl
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First edition
Author Roald Dahl
CountryUnited Kingdom
Publisher Michael Joseph
Publication date
1991
Media typehardback
Pages762
ISBN 0-7181-3545-8

The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl is a 1991 short story collection for adults by Roald Dahl. [1] The collection containing tales of macabre malevolence comprises many of Dahl's stories seen in the television series Tales of the Unexpected and previously collected in Someone Like You (1953), Kiss, Kiss (1960), Twenty-Nine Kisses from Roald Dahl (1969), Switch Bitch (1974), and Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life: The Country Stories of Roald Dahl (1989). [2]

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References

  1. Sharp, Michael D. (2006). Popular Contemporary Writers. Marshall Cavendish. p. 520. ISBN   9780761476016.
  2. Dahl, Roald (1991). The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl.