The Best of Roald Dahl

This selection gathers Roald Dahl's adult short stories rather than his books for children. Typical plots involve a wager over wine or a little finger, a landlady who keeps more than guest-books, a wife who serves an inconvenient husband as dinner, a taxidermist, a hitch-hiker's fingers, and quiet people who prove predatory. Settings are English suburbs, boarding-houses, ships, and country pubs. Many pieces end on a single reversal. There is no continuous cast. The volume is a collection of independent tales of appetite and comeuppance, not a novel and not a gathering of the Charlie or Matilda stories.

Bound in different coloured cloth for each volume, each printed with a design in black and gold. Pale blue six-volume slipcase with a design in black and gold on front.