7 Roald Dahl Books $29.99 + $5.99 postage

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From the famous author Roald Dahl we have this fantastic set of 7 Books: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, Switch Bitch, Someone Like You, My Uncle Oswald, Going Solo, Boy and AH, Sweet Mystery of Life.

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar: If you could see with your eyes closed, how would you use your power? That's what Henry has to decide in IThe Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar,one of the seven stories in this extra-ordinary collection. In addition to imaginative and magical tales, this book also contains the true story of how Roald Dahl became a writer, as well as a copy of the very first nonfiction story he wrote for The Saturday Evening Post. Packed with wit and adventure, the collection is a clever mix of fantasy and reality — and a stunning showcase of Dahl's prose.

Switch Bitch: These four stories are, by turns, funny, bawdy, touching, and outrageous. They are for lovers of tales that combine the macabre and the erotic with intriguing twists of plot.

Someone Like You: These eighteen tales of the macabre show Dahl's dark brilliance as a short-story writer. They are wicked (as an old man attracts the attentions of those more interested in his skin than his wellbeing), shocking (as distasteful bets are made - a daughter's hand on the identity of a glass of claret, a finger risked for a Cadillac) and blackly humorous (as a cuckolded husband receives a chance to take his revenge out on his wife's neck). Someone Like You is as devilishly ingenious and suspenseful as writing gets.

My Uncle Oswald: Uncle Oswald is, if you remember, the greatest rogue, bounder, connoisseur, bon vivant and fornicator of all time. Here, many famous names are mentioned and there is obviously a grave risk that families and friends are going to take offence… Uncle Oswald discovers the electrifying properties of the Sudanese Blister Beetle and the gorgeous Yasmin Howcomely, a girl absolutely soaked in sex, and sets about seducing all the great men of the time for his own wicked, irreverent reasons.

Boy: Funny, irreverent, and sometimes sad, this is the story of the early life of one of our most successful writers. Into his description of an enchanted boyhood spent in Wales and Norway, counterpointed with his cruel, often barbaric, experience at an English public school, Roald Dahl weaves a sparkling thread of reminiscence filled with wit, high spirits, and more than a touch of the macabre.

Going Solo: Continuing the story begun in Boy, this is the second part of Roald Dahl's autobiography, in which he creates a world as bizarre and unnerving as any you will find in his fiction. In Africa, our hero, more or less single-handed, rounds up a convoy of Germans leaving Dar-es-Salaam at the beginning of World War II. Then he becomes a fighter puilot, crashing a plane in no man's land in the Western Desert, and then does yeoman service in Hurricanes during the last hopeless days in Greece before he is grounded.

Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life: A collection of seven hilariously creepy Roald Dahl stories published in various magazines and collections in the '40s and '50s, and gathered here for the first time. With the classic Dahl mixture of charm and charmingly perverse, these stories remind us that the mystery of life isn't always as sweet as it seems.

Features

• Set of 7 Books
• from Roald Dahl

Author Biography: From the publication of James and the Giant Peach and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in the 1960s to his death in 1990, Roald Dahl became the most successful children's author in the world. Nearly twenty years later, a fresh generation of children seek out his work with instinctive fanaticism. His creations endure - through Hollywood movies, theatre adaptations and musical works, but still most potently of all through the pure magic of his writing upon the page.