The Umbrella Man and Other Stories

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Information

• First editions:
  • Viking Children’s Books, 1998, USA.
• Also published as:
  • The Great Automatic Grammatizator and Other Stories (in the UK)

• Contains:
  • “Katina”
  • “Man From the South”
  • “Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat”
  • “Neck”
  • “Parson’s Pleasure”
  • “Royal Jelly”
  • “Taste”
  • “The Butler”
  • “The Great Automatic Grammatizator”
  • “The Landlady”
  • “The Umbrella Man”
  • “The Way Up to Heaven”
  • “Vengeance is Mine, Inc.”

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Description

This new selection of Roald Dahl’s short stories has been specially chosen as an introduction for teenagers into the adult writing of one of the world’s greatest storytellers. Subtle and bizarre, ironic and amusing, macabre and often grotesque, in every sense these tales provide a superb first step into the unexpected world of Roald Dahl.

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Reviews

• “Valley of the Dahls” by Brian Murray (The Weekly Standard)

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Covers