Roald Dahl Collected Stories
$67.40
- Hardcover
888 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2006
Summary
Fully illustrated, beautiful hardback edition of Roald Dahl’s complete work. The present volume includes, for the first time, all the stories in chronological order as established by Dahl’s biographer, Jeremy Treglown, in consultation with the Dahl estate.
Many of these stories are now so famous from film and television adaptations that they need no introduction. Roald Dahl is well known as a master of the macabre and the unexpected in the tradition of Saki, and this volume does not d…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841593005 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841593001 |
| Author: | Roald Dahl, Jeremy Treglown |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 888 |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2006 |
| Weight: | 898g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 136mm x 46mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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About The Author
Roald Dahl
Jeremy Treglown is a writer and critic who spends part of every year in Spain and has written about the country for Granta and other magazines. His previous books include biographies of Roald Dahl, Henry Green (Dictionary of Literary Biography Award), and V. S. Pritchett (shortlisted for the Whitbread Award for Biography; Duff Cooper Prize for Literature). A former editor of The Times Literary Supplement, he has taught at Oxford, University College London, Oxford, Princeton and Warwick, and has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times Book Review. He lives in London.
Roald Dahl was born in Wales in 1916. The son of Norwegian parents, he was educated at Repton. He was a fighter pilot for the RAF during World War Two, and it was while writing about his experiences during this time that he started his career as an author. His fabulously popular children’s books are read by children all over the world. He died in November 1990.
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