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Skin And Other Stories
''Skin and Other Stories'' is a collection of short stories written by Roald Dahl. It was published in 2000 by Puffin Books, a division of G. P. Putnam's Sons, Penguin Putnam Books. Many of these stories first appeared in the Dahl book, ''Someone Like You (short story collection), Someone Like You'', and also includes the story "The Surgeon", originally published in Playboy magazine, ''Playboy'' magazine in 1986. Contents *"Skin (short story), Skin" *"Lamb to the Slaughter" *"The Sound Machine" *"An African Story" *"Galloping Foxley" *"The Wish" *"The Surgeon" *"Dip in the Pool" *"The Champion of the World" *"Beware of the Dog (short story), Beware of the Dog" *"My Lady Love, My Dove" 2000 short story collections Short story collections by Roald Dahl {{2000s-story-collection-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British novelist, short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, and wartime fighter ace of Norwegian descent. His books have sold more than 250 million copies worldwide. Dahl has been called "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century". Dahl was born in Wales to affluent Norwegian immigrant parents, and spent most of his life in England. He served in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. He became a fighter pilot and, subsequently, an intelligence officer, rising to the rank of acting wing commander. He rose to prominence as a writer in the 1940s with works for children and for adults, and he became one of the world's best-selling authors. His awards for contribution to literature include the 1983 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement and the British Book Awards' Children's Author of the Year in 1990. Dahl and his work have been criticised for racial stereotypes, misogyny a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puffin Books
Puffin Books is a longstanding children's imprint of the British publishers Penguin Books. Since the 1960s, it has been among the largest publishers of children's books in the UK and much of the English-speaking world. The imprint now belongs to Penguin Random House, a subsidiary of the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann. History Four years after Penguin Books had been founded by Allen Lane, the idea for Puffin Books was hatched in 1939, when Noel Carrington, at the time an editor for '' Country Life'' books, met him and proposed a series of children's non-fiction picture books, inspired by the brightly coloured lithographed books mass-produced at the time for Soviet children. Lane saw the potential, and the first of the picture book series were published the following year. The name "Puffin" was a natural companion to the existing "Penguin" and "Pelican" books. Many continued to be reprinted right into the 1970s. A fiction list soon followed, when Puffin secured the paper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Someone Like You (short Story Collection)
''Someone Like You'' is a collection of short stories by Roald Dahl. It was published in 1953 by Alfred Knopf. Contents It contains eighteen short stories. The final four are grouped under a collective title. * "Taste" * "Lamb to the Slaughter" * " Man from the South" * "The Soldier" * " My Lady Love, My Dove" * "Dip in the Pool" * "Galloping Foxley" * "Skin" * "Poison" * "The Wish" * "Neck" * "The Sound Machine" * "Nunc Dimittis" * "The Great Automatic Grammatizator" (republished as ''The Great Automatic Grammatizator'' anthology) * "Claude's Dog" **"The Ratcatcher" ** "Rummins" ** "Mr. Feasey" ** "Mr. Hoddy" Reception Groff Conklin called ''Someone Like You'' "certainly the most distinguished book of short stories of 1953 ... all superb". Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas praised the collection's "subtly devastating murder stories s well astwo biting science-fantasties, plus a few unclassifiable gems" and concluded the volume "belong don your shelves somewhere in the B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playboy Magazine
''Playboy'' is an American men's Lifestyle magazine, lifestyle and entertainment magazine, formerly in print and currently online. It was founded in Chicago in 1953, by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. Known for its centerfolds of nude and semi-nude Model (people), models (Playboy Playmate, Playmates), ''Playboy'' played an important role in the sexual revolution and remains one of the world's best-known brands, having grown into Playboy Enterprises, Playboy Enterprises, Inc. (PEI), with a presence in nearly every medium. In addition to the flagship magazine in the United States, special #International editions, nation-specific versions of ''Playboy'' are published worldwide, including those by licensees, such as Dirk Steenekamp's DHS Media Group. The magazine has a long history of publishing short stories by novelists such as Arthur C. Clarke, Ian Fleming, Vladimir Nabokov, Saul Bellow, Chuck Palahniuk, P. G. Wodehouse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skin (short Story)
"Skin" is a macabre short story written by author Roald Dahl. It was first published in the May 17, 1952 issue of ''The New Yorker'', and was later featured in the collections '' Someone Like You'', published in 1953, and ''Skin and Other Stories'', published in 2000. It was adapted for television as part of Anglia Television's '' Tales of the Unexpected'', broadcast on March 8, 1980. Plot summary A destitute old man named Drioli walks through the streets of Paris. When he passes by an art gallery and sees a painting by Chaïm Soutine, he reminisces about a time long-ago when they were friends. Over thirty years earlier, Soutine had been in love with Drioli's wife Josie, and on a particular day in autumn 1913, Drioli, a tattoo artist, had been fortunate to work on nine clients, most of whom had paid in cash. This resulted in unusually large earnings for that day, and he had decided to celebrate by buying their fill of bottles of wine. When he had become drunk, Drioli asked Soutin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lamb To The Slaughter
"Lamb to the Slaughter" is a 1954 short story by Roald Dahl. It was initially rejected, along with four other stories, by ''The New Yorker'', but was published in ''Harper's Magazine'' in September 1953. It was adapted for an episode of ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' (AHP) that starred Barbara Bel Geddes and Harold J. Stone. Originally broadcast on April 13, 1958, this was one of only 17 ''AHP'' episodes directed by Hitchcock. The episode was ranked #59 of the Top 100 Episodes by ''TV Guide'' in 2009. The story was adapted for Dahl's British TV series '' Tales of the Unexpected''. Dahl included it in his short story compilation '' Someone Like You''. The narrative element of the housewife killing her husband and letting the policemen partake in eating the evidence was used by Pedro Almodóvar in his 1984 movie '' What Have I Done to Deserve This?'', with a leg of mutton. "Lamb to the Slaughter" demonstrates Dahl's fascination with horror (with elements of black comedy), which is s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galloping Foxley
"Galloping Foxley" is a short story by Roald Dahl first published in '' Town & Country'' in 1953. It was included in the short-story collection '' Someone Like You'', and was later adapted into an episode of '' Tales of The Unexpected''. Published story "Galloping Foxley", which Dahl claimed was based on a true story, is about a man named William Perkins, described as a "contented commuter" but in fact obsessed by routine. Every day he arrives at the station and catches the same train, taking the same seat in the carriage. One day his routine is shattered by the arrival of a newcomer who takes first his place at the station, and then sits in the carriage Perkins normally has to himself. The outraged Perkins slowly realises he recognises the newcomer as a former schoolmate; but the newcomer clearly does not recognize Perkins, allowing the author to fill the void. The newcomer is Bruce Foxley. At school, Foxley was a prefect who used Perkins as his personal slave, viciously abusing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dip In The Pool
"Dip in the Pool" is a macabre short story by British writer Roald Dahl, originally published in the 19 January 1952 edition of ''The New Yorker''. It later appeared in the collection '' Someone Like You'' (1953). Plot summary On a British cruise ship, there is a betting pool wherein passengers try to correctly guess the number of miles the ship will travel that day, within ten miles above ("high field") or below ("low field") the captain's own guess. On a stormy day, a passenger named William Botibol bids two hundred pounds on "low field", the inclement weather having significantly slowed down the ship. He is gambling largely with money he doesn't have (it represents years of his and his wife's savings), but he views it as worth the risk. The next morning, Botibol wakes up to find the sky is clear and the ship is moving very fast to make up for lost time. Horrified, he decides that to slow down the ship he will jump overboard, dressed as if for tennis so he can easily swim. Thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beware Of The Dog (short Story)
"Beware of the Dog" is a 1944 World War II story by Roald Dahl which was originally published in ''Harper's Magazine'' and later appeared in his '' Over to You'' collection. Its basic plot was adapted into the 1965 movie '' 36 Hours'', starring James Garner and Rod Taylor, and the TV movie '' Breaking Point'' in 1989. Story RAF pilot Peter Williamson sustains a serious injury (the loss of a leg from a cannon shell) while flying a mission over German-controlled Vichy France. He bails out of his plane and later awakes to find himself in a hospital bed in Brighton, on the English coast. As he recovers, strange things keep happening, such as hearing the sound of German warplanes through the window when none would have been nearby. The nurse also mentions that the hospital water is very hard Hard may refer to: * Hardness, resistance of physical materials to deformation or fracture * Hard water, water with high mineral content Arts and entertainment * ''Hard'' (TV series), a Frenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
