Roald Dahl: Collected Stories

Roald Dahl: Collected Stories
1st edition
Author(s)	Roald Dahl Jeremy Treglown (editor)
Country	United Kingdom & United States
Language	English
Series	Everyman's Library
Genre(s)	Short story Anthology, Science fiction, Mystery, Dark comedy
Publisher	Random House
Publication date	Sep 07, 2006 (UK) Oct 17, 2006 (US)
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	888
ISBN	1-84159-300-1
OCLC Number	70060186

Roald Dahl: Collected Stories is a hardcover edition of short-stories by Roald Dahl for adults. It was published in the US in October 2006 by Random House as part of the Everyman Library. 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. A few of the short stories were not published chronologically in book form, but appeared later, collected in More Tales of the Unexpected (1980). The collection contains all of the short stories published in following collections:^[1]

• Over To You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying (1946)
• Someone Like You (1953)
• Kiss Kiss (1959)
• Switch Bitch (1974)
• More Tales of the Unexpected (1980)

Table of Contents

Introduction by Jeremy Treglown

Select Bibliography

Chronology

• From Over To You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying (1946)
  • An African Story
  • Only This
  • Katina
  • Beware of the Dog
  • They Shall Not Grow Old
  • Someone Like You
  • Death of an Old Old Man
  • Madame Rosette
  • A Piece of Cake
  • Yesterday Was Beautiful
• From Someone Like You (1953)
  • Nunc Dimittis
  • Skin
  • Man from the South
  • The Soldier
  • The Sound Machine
  • Mr Botibol (also published in More Tales of the Unexpected)
  • Vengeance Is Mine Inc. (also published in More Tales of the Unexpected)
  • The Wish
  • Poison
  • Taste
  • Dip in the Pool
  • The Great Automatic Grammatizator
  • Claud’s Dog:
    • The Ratcatcher
    • Rummins
    • Mr Hoddy
    • Mr Feasey
  • My Lady Love, My Dove
  • Neck
  • Lamb to Slaughter
  • Galloping Foxley
• From Kiss Kiss (1959)
  • Edward the Conqueror
  • The Way Up to Heaven
  • William and Mary
  • Parson’s Pleasure
  • Georgy Porgy
  • Mrs Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat
  • Royal Jelly
  • The Champion of the World
  • Genesis and Catastrophe
  • Pig
  • The Landlady
• From Switch Bitch (1974)
  • The Visitor
  • The Last Act
  • The Great Switcheroo
  • The Butler (also published in More Tales of the Unexpected)
  • Bitch
• Others
  • Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life (first published in 1974 issue of The Daily Telegraph)
  • The Hitchhiker (first published in The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More)
  • The Umbrella Man (first published in More Tales of the Unexpected)
  • The Bookseller (first published in 1987 issue of Playboy)
  • The Surgeon (first published in 1988 issue of Playboy)

Appendix: Dates of Composition and First Publication

Other Short Stories

There are other works that are arguably short stories, which are not included in this volume.

• From The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More (1977)
  • Lucky Break (advice on being a writer - not really a story)
  • The Boy Who Talked with Animals (children's short story)
  • The Mildenhall Treasure (non-fiction short story)
  • The Swan
  • The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
• Two Fables (1986)
  • Princess and the Poacher
  • Princess Mammalia
• The website RoaldDahlFans.com has details of five other short stories not collected in book form.
  • Shot Down Over Libya (semi-biographical story. An earlier version of "A Piece of Cake" from Over to You. First published in the August 1, 1942 issue of The Saturday Evening Post)
  • The Sword (first published in the July 1943 issue of Atlantic Monthly)
  • Smoked Cheese (first published in the November 1945 issue of Atlantic Monthly)
  • In the Ruins (first published in a 1964 issue of King)
  • The Upsidedown Mice (a modification of Smoked Cheese, published in the Puffin Annual, No. 1 (1974))

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