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|title=The Complete Short Stories: Volume One

|sort=Complete Short Stories: Volume One, The

|publisher=Penguin

|date=September 2013

|summary=This is the first of a two volume collection of all of Roald Dahl’s short stories with this selection being written between 1944 and 1953. Largely influenced by Roald Dahl’s experiences during the war initially but the subject matter becomes more whimsical and recognisably Dahl later in the collection.

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Roald Dahl’s name on a book has for me always meant I was in for a fun and imaginative read. His children’s books are the pinnacle of children’s literature and combine fantastic ideas with wordplay and some of the most amusing characters and situations. The stories for a younger audience always managed to thrill and entertain both adult and child and reading them aloud is a joy. In short I believe Roald Dahl was a true master of storytelling. I have however only actually read one of his adult books before reading this collection of short stories.