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Roald Dahl was born in 1916 at Villa Marie, Fairwater Road, in Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales, to Norwegians Harald Dahl and Sofie Magdalene Dahl (née Hesselberg). [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Dahl's father, a wealthy shipbroker and self-made man , had emigrated to Britain from Sarpsborg , Norway and settled in Cardiff in the 1880s with his first wife, Frenchwoman ...
A Roald Dahl Selection: Nine Short Stories: 1980: Longmans, London Adult Two Fables: 1986: Viking Press, London Adult Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life: The Country Stories of Roald Dahl: 1989: Michael Joseph, London Adult The Roald Dahl Treasury: 1997: Jonathan Cape, London Children Madness: Tales of Fear and Unreason: 2016: Penguin Books, London Adult
The Best of Roald Dahl: stories from Over to You, Someone Like You, Kiss Kiss, Switch Bitch. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 978-0394725499. — (1986). The Roald Dahl Omnibus. New York: Dorset Press. ISBN 978-0880291248. — (1991). The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl. London: Michael Joseph. ISBN 978-0708987421. — (2006).
Despite Roald Dahl having enjoined his publishers not to "so much as change a single comma in one of my books", in February 2023 Puffin Books, a division of Penguin Books, announced it would be re-writing portions of many of Dahl's children's novels, changing the language to, in the publisher's words, "ensure that it can continue to be enjoyed ...
In the introduction to Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories, a collection of fourteen stories by other writers that he chose as the genre's best, Dahl states that he had always wanted to write a ghost story but had never quite been able to. The closest he came was with "The Landlady", but after reading it through he decided that he had not ...
"Pig" is a macabre short story by Roald Dahl that was published in Dahl's 1960 collection Kiss Kiss.The world it presents is one that is cruel and violent. It is a cautionary tale warning parents of the danger of ill-preparing a child for the dangers and realities of the greater world, particularly the shielding of children from things perceived as bad by the parents, but accepted by the world ...
"Man from the South" is a short story by Roald Dahl originally published as "Collector's Item" in Collier's in September 1948. It has been adapted several times for television and film, including a 1960 version that aired as an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and starred Steve McQueen, Neile Adams, and Peter Lorre.
Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying is a collection of short stories by Roald Dahl. It was published in 1946 by Reynal & Hitchcock. [1] This early collection is a stylistic departure from Dahl's better known stories. For the most part they do not use suspense or twist endings and are instead more slow-paced and reflective.