Tag: shortstorycollection

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Information

• First editions:
  • Folio Society, 2001.

• Contains:
  • Kiss Kiss
  • Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying
  • Switch B***h
  • Someone Like You
  • A Second Roald Dahl Selection: Eight Short Stories

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Covers

Sections: Information | Covers | Czech Covers

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Information

• First editions:
  • Penguin Books, 2013
• Covers years from 1954-1988
• With introduction by Anthony Horowitz
• Note: Together with Volume One, this represents the most complete collection of all of Dahl’s short stories in order of publication.

• Contains:
  • “The Way Up to Heaven”
  • “Parson’s Pleasure”
  • “The Champion of the World”
  • “The Landlady”
  • “Genesis and Catastrophe”
  • “Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat”
  • “Pig”
  • “Royal Jelly”
  • “William and Mary”
  • “Georgy Porgy”
  • “The Visitor”
  • “The Last Act”
  • “The Great Switcheroo”
  • “The Butler”
  • “B***h”
  • “Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life”
  • “The Hitchhiker”
  • “The Swan”
  • “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar”
  • “The Boy Who Talked with Animals”
  • “Lucky Break”
  • “The Umbrella Man”
  • “Vengeance is Mine, Inc.”
  • “Mr. Botibol”
  • “The Princess and the Poacher”
  • “Princess Mammalia”
  • “The Bookseller”
  • “The Surgeon”

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Covers

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Czech Covers – Od A do Z – Souhrné vydání nejlepších povídek – svazek 2

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Information

• First editions:
  • Penguin Books, 2013
• Covers years from 1944-1953
• With introduction by Charlie Higson
• Note: Together with Volume Two, this represents the most complete collection of all of Dahl’s short stories in order of publication.

• Contains:
  • “Katina”
  • “Only This”
  • “Beware of the Dog”
  • “An African Story”
  • “Yesterday was Beautiful”
  • “A Piece of Cake”
  • “They Shall Not Grow Old”
  • “Madame Rosette”
  • “Death of an Old Old Man”
  • “Someone Like You”
  • “The Mildenhall Treasure”
  • “Man From the South”
  • “The Sound Machine”
  • “Poison”
  • “Taste”
  • “Dip in the Pool”
  • “Skin”
  • “My Lady Love, My Dove”
  • “Lamb to the Slaughter”
  • “Nunc Dimittis”
  • “Edward the Conqueror”
  • “Galloping Foxley”
  • “Neck”
  • “The Wish”
  • “The Soldier”
  • “The Great Automatic Grammatizator”
  • “The Ratcatcher”
  • “Rummins”
  • “Mr. Hoddy”
  • “Mr. Feasey”

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Covers

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Czech Covers – Od A do Z – Souhrné vydání nejlepších povídek – svazek 1

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Spanish Covers – Cuentos Completos 1

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

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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

Sections: Information | Covers | Czech and German Covers

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Information

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

• Published in honor of Roald Dahl’s seventieth birthday
• First editions:
  • Viking, 1986, UK.
    • Illustrated by: Graham Dean
    • To identify: Used a limitation page stating the copy number of 300 copies and signed by the author. Published without a jacket and not priced.
  • Viking, 1986, UK.
    • Illustrated by: Graham Dean
    • To identify: Used a standard single statement and was published with a dust jacket priced at £5.95.
  • Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1986, USA.
    • To identify: Used a ‘First Edition’ statement and was published with a dust jacket priced at $12.95.

• Contains:
  • “The Princess and the Poacher”
  • “Princess Mammalia”

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Covers

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Czech Covers – Princezna a pytlák

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German Covers – Die Prinzessin und der Wilderer

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Information

• First editions:
  • Michael Joseph Ltd., 1969, Great Britain.

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Covers

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Information

• First editions:
  • Longman, 1979, Great Britain.

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Covers

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Information

• First editions:
  • Penguin, 1997, Great Britain.
    • Special promotional edition for Tetley Tea

• Contains:
  • “Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat”
  • “Neck”
  • “Nunc Dimittis”
  • “The Way Up to Heaven”
  • “Vengeance is Mine, Inc.”

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Covers

Sections: Information | Covers

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Information

• First editions:
  • Penguin, 1997, Great Britain.
    • Special promotional edition for Tetley Tea

• Contains:
  • “Dip in the Pool”
  • “Lamb to the Slaughter”
  • “My Lady Love, My Dove”
  • “Parson’s Pleasure”
  • “The Butler”
  • “The Hitchhiker”
  • “The Umbrella Man”

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Covers