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The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl [Anglais] [Broché]

Roald Dahl
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30 octobre 2003
A complete collection of the superb short stories which have appeared in: Over To You, Kiss Kiss, Someone Like You, Switch Bitch and eight further stories: The Umberella man; Mr Botibol; Vengeance in Mine inc; The Butler; Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life; The Bookseller; The Hitchhiker, The Surgeon.

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“With the inventive power of a Thomas Edison and the imagination of a Lewis Carroll . . . Roald Dahl is a wizard of comedy and the grotesque, an artist with a marvelously topsy-turvy sense of the ridiculous in life.”
—CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER

“Dahl has the mastery of plot and characters possessed by great writers of the past, along with a wildness and wryness of his own. One of his trademarks is writing beautifully about the ugly, even the horrible.”
—LOS ANGELES TIMES

“A collection of Roald Dahl stories is always occasion for applause.”
—CHICAGO DAILY NEWS

“An ingenious imagination, a fascination with odd and ordinary detail . . . are the first strengths of Dahl’s storytelling.”
—NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

“[Dahl’s] stare is unblinking, and most of his tales are irritants, provocations. Fantastic as Grimm, neat as O. Henry, heartless as Saki, they stick in the mind long after subtler ones have faded: incredible (literally), unforgettable, and vengefully funny.”
—from the Introduction by Jeremy Treglown --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition Relié .

Biographie de l'auteur

From the publication of James and the Giant Peach and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in the 1960s to his death in 1990, Roald Dahl became the most successful children’s author in the world. Nearly twenty years later, a fresh generation of children seek out his work with instinctive fanaticism. His creations endure - through Hollywood movies, theatre adaptations and musical works, but still most potently of all through the pure magic of his writing upon the page.

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  • Broché: 768 pages
  • Editeur : Penguin; Édition : Omnibus Ed (30 octobre 2003)
  • Langue : Anglais
  • ISBN-10: 0140158073
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140158076
  • Dimensions du produit: 12,8 x 19,8 cm
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5.0 étoiles sur 5 Facile à lire ... 16 février 2009
Par bragadaccio TOP 500 COMMENTATEURS
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Si vous souhaitez de petites histoires (pour adultes) à lire en anglais, n'hésitez pas! Un vocabulaire facile, moderne. Des histoires passionnantes, pleines de suspense, avec toujours une petite surprise à la fin. Souvent assez courtes pour être lues quand on a un quart d'heure à perdre dans une salle d'attente!!
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5.0 étoiles sur 5 Short stories de Roald Dahl 17 février 2013
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J'aime beaucoup cet auteur. Toutes ses histoires sont pour le moins surprenantes et abordent différents thèmes.

À lire si vous aimez être surpris!

Nadine
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5.0 étoiles sur 5 Macabre Humor !! 11 mars 2002
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A most interesting collection of reading material by the Master of the twist-in-the-tale. Fifty-two entertaining stories full of black humor with unpredictable endings. The stories of "Over to You" are all about RAF fighters in WWII and at first I found them a bit boring compared to his other writings but after a while they grew on me too. For those who would like to know what stories this omnibus includes, here's a list:

Kiss,Kiss: The Landlady,William and Mary,The Way up to Heaven,Parson's Pleasure,Mrs.Bixby and the Colonel's Coat,Royal Jelly,Georgy Porgy,Genesis and Catastrophe,Edward the Conqueror,Pig and Champion of the World.

Over to You: Death of and Old Man,An African Story,A Piece of Cake,Madame Rosette,Katina,Yesterday was Beautiful,They Shall not Grow Old,Beware of the Dog,Only This and Someone like You.

Switch Bitch:The Visitor,The Great Switcheroo,The Last Act,and Bitch.

Someone Like You:Taste,Lamb to the Slaughter,Man from the South,The Soldier,My LadyLove My Dove,Dip in the Pool,Galloping Foxley,Skin,Poison, The Wish,Neck,The Sound Machine,Nunc Dimittis,The Great Automatic Grammatizator,Claud's Dog,The Ratcatcher,Rummins,Mr Hoddy and Mr Feasey.

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Tales of the Unexpected:
The Umbrella Man,Mr.Botibol,Vengeance is Mine Inc.,The Butler,Ah Sweet Mystery of Life, the Bookseller,The Hitchhiker and the Surgeon....

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5.0 étoiles sur 5 A superb collection of Roald Dahl's stories 22 octobre 2000
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This book is packed solid with 52 highly entertaining stories that have so many twists and turns you will not want to stop reading. Each well-written story is unique in its own way, whether it be amusing, thrilling, sad or altogether intriguing. The characters, even the dislikable ones, are so splendidly created and lifelike that you will be completely engrossed in their lives. This is a thoroughly enjoyable read for those who love a good twist-in-the-tale story.
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4.0 étoiles sur 5 Tales of the Unexpected 8 septembre 2006
Par J C E Hitchcock - Publié sur Amazon.com
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Roald Dahl is today best known as a children's writer. Books like "James and the Giant Peach" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" were part of my childhood when I was growing up in the sixties, just as they were part of the childhoods of many people of my generation. From what I understand, he is even more popular with modern children. This book, however, presents us with the other side of Dahl's work, his stories for adults which are perhaps less well known today, although they did go though a spell of popularity in the seventies and eighties when they formed the basis of the Anglia Television series "Tales of the Unexpected".

Writers are often advised to write about the things they know best from personal experience, but unless he was lucky enough to enjoy a far greater variety of experiences than most other people, Dahl appears to have ignored this advice. Strangely, perhaps the part of this volume that I enjoyed least was the most personal, his first collection of stories "Over to You" which was based upon his wartime experiences in the RAF. Although deeply heartfelt, these generally lacked the wit and energy of his later work.

Dahl's other collections, "Someone Like You", "Kiss Kiss" and "Switch Bitch", and the uncollected stories published here as "Eight Further Tales of the Unexpected" contain a much greater variety of subject-matter, and suggest that the author was very knowledgeable about many different subjects- wine-tasting, the game of bridge, the art world, greyhound racing and the antiques business, to name only a few. As the title of the television series suggests, a feature of many of his stories is a sudden, unexpected twist at the end, a device which has been successfully used by many other short-story writers, perhaps most famously by O. Henry.

A frequent Dahl theme is that of the person who concocts an elaborate and supposedly foolproof scheme to achieve some disreputable end, only to be thwarted by events. A bookseller sends out invoices for pornographic books supposedly purchased by their late husbands to grieving widows. An antique dealer poses as a clergyman in order to acquire valuable furniture at knock-down prices. An unfaithful wife pretends to have found a pawn ticket in order to conceal from her husband the fact that her lover has given her a mink coat. In each case an unexpected turn of events brings about their downfall. Of course, in some cases the twist- as in "The Umbrella Man"- is that the villain succeeds in his scheme.

Sometimes the twist is less important than what has preceded it. In "Galloping Foxley", for example, a middle-aged commuter believes that the man sitting opposite him is the bully who made his life miserable at school. The twist- that he has, in fact, misidentified the man- is not particularly startling- what makes this story memorable is Dahl's description of the man's schooldays and his experiences of vicious schoolboy sadism. Not all the stories succeed; I felt that at times Dahl gave too much rein to his appetite for the bizarre and gruesome, with the result that some stories such as "William and Mary" or "Pig" tended to descend out of the real world and into a sort of grotesque Grand Guignol. Nevertheless, for every story that fails there are several that succeed. And when one of Dahl's stories succeeds, the result can be a delight. Among my favourites are "Lamb to the Slaughter", in which a woman who has killed her husband finds a neat way of disposing of the evidence, "Taste" which features the ultimate wine snob, "The Great Switcheroo" with its curious wife-swapping session and "The Surgeon" in which a stolen diamond is returned to its rightful owner by a most curious route. I suspect that most readers will find as much to enjoy in this collection as I did.
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