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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 ...
Switch Bitch (1974) is a book of adult short stories by British writer Roald Dahl.Four stories, originally published in Playboy between 1965 and 1974, [1] are collected. They are linked by themes of rape by deception: in each one, some major act of cunning, cruelty, or hedonism underpins the sexuality.
OCLC. 261341390. Roald Dahl 's Tales of the Unexpected is a collection of 16 short stories written by British author Roald Dahl and first published in 1979. All of the stories were earlier published in various magazines, and then in the collections Someone Like You and Kiss Kiss. [1]
Print. The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigía Edition, is a posthumous collection of Ernest Hemingway 's (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) short fiction, published in 1987. It contains the classic First Forty-Nine Stories as well as 21 other stories and a foreword by his sons. Only a small handful of stories published ...
Groff Conklin called Someone Like You "certainly the most distinguished book of short stories of 1953 ... all superb". [2] Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas praised the collection's "subtly devastating murder stories [as well as] two biting science-fantasties, plus a few unclassifiable gems" and concluded the volume "belong[ed] on your shelves somewhere in the Beerbohm/Collier/Saki section".
The New Yorker (17 September 1949) More Tales, Someone Like You, Skin; Best. "Poison". Collier's (June 1950) More Tales, Someone Like You. "Girl Without a Name". Today's Woman (November 1951) Working title "Meet My Sister"; republished in Woman's Journal in December 1951.
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions is a collection of short stories and poems by. English writer Neil Gaiman. It was first published in the United States in 1998, and in the United Kingdom in 1999. [1] The UK edition included five stories not in the US edition, four of which were included in the US edition of the other collection ...
70060186. Roald Dahl: Collected Stories is a hardcover edition of short-stories by Roald Dahl for adults. It was published in the US in October 2006 by Random House as part of the Everyman Library. It includes all Roald Dahl's stories in chronological order as established by Dahl's biographer, Jeremy Treglown, in consultation with the Dahl estate.