The Great Automatic Grammatizator

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The Great Automatic Grammatizator
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Author Roald Dahl

The Great Automatic Grammatizator (published in the U.S. as The Umbrella Man and Other Stories) [1] [2] is a 1998 collection of thirteen short stories written by British author Roald Dahl. The stories were selected for teenagers from Dahl's adult works. All the stories included were published elsewhere originally; their sources are noted below. The stories, with the exception of the war story "Katina", possess a deadpan, ironic, bizarre, or even macabre sense of humor. They generally end with unexpected plot twists.

Contents

Stories

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Reception

Groff Conklin in 1954 called the short story "The Great Automatic Grammatizator" "an awe-inspiring fantasy-satire ... an unforgettable bit of biting nonsense". [3]

References

  1. Meyer, Randy (15 May 1998). "The Umbrella Man and Other Stories". Booklist . Retrieved 20 October 2024.
  2. "The Umbrella Man and Other Stories by Roald Dahl". Publishers Weekly . 4 May 1998. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
  3. Conklin, Groff (May 1954). "Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf". Galaxy Science Fiction. pp. 129–133.