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THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIESVOL1 - ROALD DAHL KAR...

'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.  In
27 stories  written between 1944 and 1953  we encounter such classic tales as 'Man from the
South'  featuring a wager with appalling consequences  'Lamb to the Slaughter'  in which a wife
murders her husband yet has a novel idea for throwing the police off the scent  and in 'The
Sound Machine'  the horrific truth about plants is revealed.

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