A collector s item containing all the stories from Roald Dahl s world-famous books Over to You, Someone like You, Kiss Kiss and Switch Bitch plus eight tales of the unexpected The absolute master of the twist-in-the-tale Observer Roald Dahl is one of the few writers whose work can accurately be described as addictive Irish Times These stories pack their punch... [The] repeated serving right of villains never quite softens the hard-boiled, even cynical, strain in Dahl s vision of humanity and it s that ruthless unsentimentalism that is Dahl s greatest attraction Observer Dahl is too good a storyteller to become predictable, so you never know whether the tyrant or the tyrannized will win in the end Daily Telegraph. With the inventive power of a Thomas Edison and the imagination of a Lewis Carroll . . . Roald Dahl is a wizard of comedy and the grotesque, an artist with a marvelously topsy-turvy sense of the ridiculous in life. --Cleveland Plain Dealer Dahl has the mastery of plot and characters possessed by great writers of the past, along with a wildness and wryness of his own. One of his trademarks is writing beautifully about the ugly, even the horrible. --Chicago Daily News An ingenious imagination, a fascination with odd and ordinary detail . . . are the first strengths of Dahl s storytelling. --New York Times Book Review Dahl has the mastery of plot and characters possessed by great writers of the past, along with a wildness and wryness of his own. One of his trademarks is writing beautifully about the ugly, even the horrible. --Chicago Daily News An ingenious imagination, a fascination with odd and ordinary detail . . . are the first strengths of Dahl s storytelling. --New York Times Book Review Roald Dahl was a British short story writer, novelist, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter. He was born to Norwegian parents and served in the Royal Air Force during World War II. During this time, he became an intelligence officer and a flying ace. He rose to the rank of Acting Wing Commander. His short stories are popularly known for their unexpected endings, and his children s stories are unsentiment with a bit of dark humour. Some of his works include: James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The Witches, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Twits and George s Marvellous Medicine.