Skin and Other Stories
This book features a collection of Roald Dahl's extraordinary short stories, specially chosen for teenagers by Wendy Cooling. The thirteen stories have been taken from "The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl", published by Michael Joseph.
This book features a collection of Roald Dahl's extraordinary short stories, specially chosen for teenagers by Wendy Cooling. The thirteen stories have been taken from "The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl", published by Michael Joseph.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141311517 (0141311517)
Publish date: 2001
Publisher: Puffin Books
Pages no: 213
Edition language: English
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...
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