The Best of Roald Dahl

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Contents: - [Madame Rosette](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504284W/Madame_Rosette) - [Man from the South](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504421W/Man_from_the_South) - [Sound Machine](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8318678W/The_Sound_Machine) - [Taste](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15091200W/Taste) - [Dip in the Pool](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504442W/Dip_in_the_Pool) - [Skin](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504460W/Skin) - [Edward the Conqueror](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504274W/Edward_the_Conqueror) - [Lamb to the Slaughter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504418W/Lamb_to_the_Slaughter) - [Galloping Foxley](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504444W/Galloping_Foxley) - [The Way Up to Heaven](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504268W/The_Way_Up_to_Heaven) - [Parson's Pleasure](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8318648W/Parson's_Pleasure) - [Landlady](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504259W/Landlady) - [William and Mary](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504266W/William_and_Mary) - [Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3985404W/Mrs._Bixby_and_the_Colonel's_Coat) - [Royal Jelly](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504271W/Royal_Jelly) - [Georgy Porgy](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504272W/Georgy_Porgy) - [Genesis and Catastrophe](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504273W/Genesis_and_Catastrophe) - [Pig](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504275W/Pig) - [Visitor](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504386W/The_Visitor) - Claud's Dog [Ratcatcher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504625W/The_Ratcatcher), [Rummins](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504633W/Rummins), [Mr Hoddy](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504639W/Mr_Hoddy), [Mr Feasey](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504641W/Mr_Feasey), [Champion of the World](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504277W/Champion_of_the_World)

subjects: leprosy,  macabre,  short story,  diners,  cannibalism,  Austrian Germans,  doctors,  Midwives,  English nursery rhymes,  neurosis,  celibacy,  vicars,  spinsters,  sexual repression,  seduction,  abstinence,  soft drinks,  summer houses,  involuntary commitment,  psychiatrists,  sadism,  beekeepers,  royal jelly,  grubs,  mink coats,  pawnbrokers,  stoles,  cancer,  brain,  artificial hearts,  Ringer's solution,  phantom limbs,  widows,  Short horror story,  cyanide,  Chippendale Commodes,  prefects,  horror,  black comedy,  fiction,  detectives,  alibi,  Weihnachtsbaum,  Kinderszenen,  reincarnation,  cats,  World War I,  World War II,  begging,  short stories,  Cadillacs,  stockbrokers,  Oenophilia,  cruise ships,  betting pools,  caregivers,  dementia,  Fiction, short stories (single author)

People: Mr Hoddy,  Mr Feasey,  Claud,  Oswald Hendryks Cornelius,  Abdul Aziz,  Lexington,  Aunt Glosspan,  Mr. Zuckermann,  Klara Hitler,  Otto Hitler,  Gustav Hitler,  Ida Hitler,  Alois Hitler,  Adolf Hitler (1889-1945),  George,  Lady Birdwell,  Miss Roach,  Albert Taylor,  Mabel Taylor,  Mrs. Bixby,  Colonel,  Miss Pulteney,  William Pearl,  Mary Pearl,  Landy,  Billy Weaver,  Christopher Mulholland,  Gregory W. Temple,  Cyril Boggis,  Bert,  Rummins,  Eugene Foster,  Mrs Foster,  William Perkins,  Bruce Foxley,  Mary Maloney,  Patrick Maloney,  Edward,  Louisa,  Antonio Vivaldi,  Robert Schumann,  Franz Liszt,  Johannes Brahm,  Epictetus,  Ralph Waldo Emerson,  Theodore Roosevelt,  Julius Caesar,  Frédéric Chopin,  Carlos,  Klausner,  Mike Schofield,  Richard Pratt,  Louise Schofield,  William Botibol,  Drioli,  Chaim Soutine,  Josie,  narrator

Places: Arabia,  Syria,  Cairo,  New York City,  New York,  Baltimore,  Eton College,  Cambridge,  Chelsea,  London,  Buckinghamshire,  Paris,  Jamaica,  Mike Schofield's house,  Céret,  Le Havre,  Bristol Hotel,  Cannes,  Buenos Aires

Times: Autumn 1913,  1946