The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl

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Contains: [Kiss Kiss](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16248853W/Kiss_Kiss) [Landlady](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504259W/Landlady) [William and Mary](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504266W/William_and_Mary) [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) [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) [Edward the Conqueror](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504274W/Edward_the_Conqueror) [Pig](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504275W/Pig) [Champion of the World](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504277W/Champion_of_the_World) [Over to You](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL45867W/Over_to_You) [Death of an Old, Old Man](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504282W/Death_of_an_Old_Old_Man) [An African Story](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504280W/An_African_Story) [A Piece of Cake](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504283W/A_Piece_of_Cake) [Madame Rosette](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504284W/Madame_Rosette) [Katina](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504285W/Katina) [Yesterday Was Beautiful](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504287W/Yesterday_Was_Beautiful) [They Shall Not Grow Old](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504289W/They_Shall_Not_Grow_Old) [Beware of the Dog](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504290W/Beware_of_the_Dog) [Only This](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504291W/Only_This) [Someone Like You](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15348115W/Someone_Like_You) [Switch Bitch](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL45873W/Switch_Bitch) [Visitor](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504386W/The_Visitor) [Great Switcheroo](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15091023W/The_Great_Switcheroo) [Last Act](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504394W/The_Last_Act) [Bitch](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504401W/Bitch)

subjects: macabre,  diners,  cannibalism,  Weihnachtsbaum,  Kinderszenen,  reincarnation,  cats,  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,  Short horror stories,  cyanide,  short stories,  cancer,  brain,  artificial hearts,  Ringer's solution,  phantom limbs,  widows,  Chippendale Commodes,  Fiction,  English Short stories,  short stories (single author),  English literature,  World War II,  Royal Air Force,  resistance to interrogation,  hard water,  soft water,  World War,  Aeronautics,  Literature,  Air pilots in fiction,  Air pilots,  Aeronautics in fiction,  Young Adult,  general,  flashback,  olfaction,  chemists,  funding,  research,  sexology,  boxing,  sexual intercourse,  cardiovascular disease,  breasts,  safety pins,  rape by deception,  hobbyists,  leprosy,  short story,  gynecology,  martinis,  menopause,  English fiction

People: Lexington,  Aunt Glosspan,  Mr. Zuckermann,  Claud,  Edward,  Louisa,  Antonio Vivaldi,  Robert Schumann,  Franz Liszt,  Johannes Brahm,  Epictetus,  Ralph Waldo Emerson,  Theodore Roosevelt,  Julius Caesar,  Frédéric Chopin,  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,  Billy Weaver,  Christopher Mulholland,  Gregory W. Temple,  William Pearl,  Mary Pearl,  Landy,  Eugene Foster,  Mrs Foster,  Cyril Boggis,  Bert,  Rummins,  God,  Peter Williamson,  Oswald Hendryks Cornelius,  Henri Biotte,  Pierre Lacaille,  Simone,  Marcel Brossolet,  Elvira Ponsomby,  Daughters of the American Revolution,  Abdul Aziz,  Jerry Rainbow,  Samantha Rainbow,  Vic Hammond,  Mary Hammond,  Anna Cooper,  Ed,  Conrad Kreuger

Places: Eton College,  Cambridge,  New York,  Paris,  Chelsea,  London,  Buckinghamshire,  New York City,  Baltimore,  Africa,  Greece,  Great Britain,  Vichy France,  Brighton,  England,  Arabia,  Syria,  Cairo,  Dallas,  Texas,  Belguim,  Provence,  United States of America,  Waldorf Astoria

Times: 20th century,  1941-45,  1946,  1960s,  Autumn 1913,  1975