The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More

Sections: Information | Description | Reviews | Criticism and Analysis | Fun Stuff | Covers | Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Spanish, and Vietnamese Covers

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Information

Information on identifying editions is from Richard Walker’s “Roald Dahl – A Guide to Collecting His First Editions”.

• First editions:
  • Knopf, 1977, USA.
    • To identify: Used a number line, no pictures of the Mildenhall Treasure and published with a dust jacket priced at $5.95.
  • Jonathan Cape, 1977, UK.
    • To identify: Used a standard single statement and published with a dust jacket priced at £3.50.

• Contains:
  • “A Piece of Cake”
  • “Lucky Break”
  • “The Boy Who Talked with Animals”
  • “The Hitchhiker”
  • “The Mildenhall Treasure”
  • “The Swan”
  • “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar”
• Related books:
  • Roald Dahl Collection
• Audio Books:
  • The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More read by Andrew Scott
  • The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More read by David Suchet

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Description

People with peculiar and unlikely powers can be found throughout this extraordinary collection of seven short stories. A rich man who learns to see without his eyes, a giant turtle and a very special boy who can talk to animals, a cunning hitch-hiker and the curious driver who picks him up, and the very lucky ploughman who finds a fabulous fortune but loses a golden opportunity are only a few of the characters you’ll meet. The collection is a clever mix of fact and fiction and also includes the story of how Roald Dahl became a writer (and a wealth of tips for aspiring authors).

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Reviews

• “Dahl Contrives to Moralise” by Peter Monaghan from the April 8, 1978 issue of The Canberra Times – Canberra, Australia (read online)

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Criticism and Analysis

• “The Swan and the Wonderful World of Henry Sugar by Roald Dahl”
  • Article by Richard F. Abrahamson published in The English Journal 

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Fun Stuff

Sotheby’s Dahl Auction 1997

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Covers

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Catalan Covers

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Chinese Covers

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Czech Covers – Podivuhodný příběh Henryho Sugara a jiné povídky

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Dutch Covers – Het wonderlijk verhaal van Hendrik Meier

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French Covers – Coup de chance et autres nouvelles

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German Covers – Ich sehe was, was du nicht siehst

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Spanish Covers – Historias extraordinarias

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Vietnamese Covers – Câu chuyện kỳ diệu về Henry Sugar và sáu chuyện khác