Relatos escalofriantes de Roald Dahl
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9789587042375 (9587042379)
Publish date: 2005
Publisher: Editoria Alfaguara
Pages no: 224
Edition language: Spanish
This is a high quality collection of shorts, not aimed specifically at children. The stand-out entry is Lamb to the Slaughter, which is a wicked delight. I was surprised to find a precursor to the kids' novel Danny, Champion of the World here. That was the only one I was exposed to as a child. Shoul...
Roald Dahl had a TV SHOW!!!Obviously everyone knew way before I was born that Roald Dahl is a fantastic writer. I'm just catching up with his writing for adults, starting here.
Read this one aloud to my then-boyfriend, now-husband, driving through the Rockies.
I'm not a fan of the quiet literary novel. I like stories in which things happen. New, different, interesting things. Dahl is in my top five of short story writers along with Daphne DuMaurier who was also a Hitchcock fave, as well as three other people I'll have to think very carefully about. Gu...
16 years ago
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