Pearl has written a few sequels since then but this is a good place to start. Published in 2003, I am just getting to it, and making my list from it. He remains the World’s No.1 storyteller.Librarians always know the best books to read, and Nancy Pearl, Librarian of the Year in 2011, and NPR commentator and book reviewer, combined her recommendations into a book – Book Lust. He was also the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG and many more brilliant stories. Roald Dahl was a spy, ace fighter-pilot, chocolate historian and medical inventor. In these ten tales of cruelty Roald Dahl explores how and why it is we make others suffer We each have a streak of nastiness inside us.
Why do we lie? Why do we deceive those we love most? What do we fear revealing? In these ten tales of deception Roald Dahl explores our tireless efforts to hide the truth about ourselves.Įven when we mean to be kind we can sometimes be cruel. In these ten unsettling tales of unexpected madness Roald Dahl explores what happens when we let go of our sanity. Our greatest fear is of losing control – above all, of losing control of ourselves. To what lengths would you go to achieve your heart’s desire? In these ten tales of maddening lust Roald Dahl explores how our darkest impulses reveal who we really are. Now I just need to decide which one to read first. I’m looking forward to reading more of these short stories, which include The Hitch-hiker, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Vengeance is Mine Inc. Each shows a skillful turn of phrase, they are shining examples of the story-telling flair and brilliance Roald Dahl possessed.
Of the four stories I read my favourites were Lamb to Slaughter and The Butler. Each one offers a tempting array of short stories to indulge in. I’ve not decided which of the collection to carry on with. I devoured Lamb to the Slaughter from Deception, a brilliantly executed story of a wife who dispatches her husband, and the evidence of his murder in a cunning and amusing way. In Cruelty I read The Butler, a clever tale of how the servants of an obnoxious man get their revenge in a brilliantly sneaky way. I read Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life from Lust, the tale of a farmer who knows how to predict the gender of his calves, I cheated slightly with the next story as I had already read The Landlady from Madness, the story is also included in Trickery. So instead of sitting procrastinating for a while I thought I’d read one story from each and see which one appealed the most. When I received these four beautiful looking collections of short stories I didn’t know where to start first. Each book in the series features cover artwork by Charming Baker. War, Trickery, Fear and Innocence were published in the first titles, Lust, Deception, Cruelty and Madness were published on 25 August 2016. In celebration of his centenary in 2016, Penguin released 8 titles in the Roald Dahl short story collection.
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