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  Roald Dahl Biography and List of Works - Roald Dahl Books
Roald Dahl (September 13, 1916- November 23, 1990) was a British novelist and short story author of Norwegian descent, famous as a writer for both children and adults.
Roald Dahl was born in Llandaff, Wales, on September 13, 1916, to Norwegian parents, Harald Dahl and Sofie Magdalene Dahl (née Hesselberg).
Dahl's works for children are usually told from the point of view of a child, typically involve adult villainesses, who hate and mistreat children, and feature at least one "good" adult to counteract the villain(s).
www.biblio.com /authors/594/Roald_Dahl_Biography.html   (2016 words)

  
 Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl (September 13, 1916—November 23, 1990) was a British novelist and short story author of Norwegian descent, famous both as a writer of children's fiction as well as adult and horror fiction.
Roald Dahl was born in Llandaff, Wales in 1916 to Norwegian parents, Harald Dahl and Sofie Magdalene Dahl (née Hesselberg).
When Roald Dahl was 9, he was sent to St Peter's Preparatory school in Weston-super-Mare, and from 13 he was educated at Repton School, where he was a fag (personal servant) for a prefect, became captain of the school Fives team and developed an interest in photography.
www.welshpedia.co.uk /genauthors.php?mytown=dahl   (1580 words)

  
 Roald Dahl Biography
When Roald was four years old, his father died, so his mother had to organise the trip alone for herself and her six children.
Roald Dahl kept telling himself, that if this was one of God's chosen men, there was something going very wrong about the whole business.
After school, Roald Dahl didn't go to university, but applied for a job at the Shell company, because he was sure they would send him abroad.
www.focusdep.com /biographies/Roald/Dahl   (718 words)

  
 Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl (September 13, 1916 - November 23, 1990) was a novelist and short story author, famous both as a writer of children's fiction as well as adult and horror fiction.
Roald Dahl was born in Llandaff, Glamorgan in 1916 to Norwegian parents.
Dahl came to write children's stories such as Charlie & the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach; he also wrote macabre adult fiction, usually with a dark sense of humor and a surprise ending.
www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/r/ro/roald_dahl.html   (404 words)

  
 the biography of Roald Dahl - life story
When Roald was four years old, his father died, so his mother had to organise the trip alone for herself and her six children.
Roald Dahl kept telling himself, that if this was one of God's chosen men, there was something going very wrong about the whole business.
After school, Roald Dahl didn't go to university, but applied for a job at the Shell company, because he was sure they would send him abroad.
www.poemhunter.com /roald-dahl/biography/poet-6664   (786 words)

  
 Roald Dahl - MSN Encarta
Roald Dahl (1916-1990), British writer of novels, short stories, and film scripts, but best known for his children's books.
A collection of short stories, Someone Like You (1953), became a best-seller and was followed by Kiss, Kiss (1959), which firmly established Dahl as a serious writer of fiction.
Dahl wrote 19 children's books, the best known of which were James and the Giant Peach (1961) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964).
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761576226/Dahl_Roald.html   (228 words)

  
 Roald Dahl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roald Dahl (IPA: [ˌɹəʊ̯əld ˈdɑːl]) (September 13, 1916 – November 23, 1990) was a Welsh novelist and short story author of Norwegian descent, famous as a writer for both children and adults.
Roald Dahl was born at 32 Fairwater Road, Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales on 13th September 1916, to Norwegian parents, Harald Dahl and Sofie Magdalene Dahl (née Hesselberg).
Roald Dahl died of a rare blood disease, Myelo-dysplastic Anaemia on 23 November 1990, at his home, Gipsy House, in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, at the age of 74, and is buried in the cemetery at the parish church of St Peter and St Paul.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roald_Dahl   (3346 words)

  
 Dahl Kiss Kiss Roald
The story of the kiss throughout human history in art, literature, poetry, and anthropological studies is revealed here with pictures of both famous and less well known kisses.
It highlights the differences between kisses in various cultures--from five kisses on the cheeks in greeting someone to kissing the hand of a lady or the ring of a priest.
Roald Dahl - Roald Dahl (September 13, 1916 – November 23, 1990) was a British novelist and short story author of Norwegian descent, famous as a writer for both children and adults.
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 Roald Dahl Biography and Bibliography at LitWeb.net
Dahl's taste for cruelty, rudeness to adults, and the comic grotesque fascinated young readers, but upset many adult critics.
Dahl was born in Llandaff, Wales of Norwegian parents.
Dahl died of infection on November 23, 1990, in Oxford.
www.litweb.net /biography/305/Roald_Dahl.html   (879 words)

  
 Roald Dahl (1916-1990)
Roald Dahl was born in Llandaff, Wales, of Norwegian parents.
In the crash Dahl had fractured his skull, and said later: "You do get bits of magic from enormous bumps on the head." While he was recovering from his wounds, Dahl had strange dreams, which inspired his first short stories.
Dahl's wife suffered a series of brain hemorrhages at the age of 38; while pregnant with their fifth child she had a stroke.
www.classicshorts.com /bios/biodahl.html   (1161 words)

  
 Kiss, Kiss - washingtonpost.com
Dahl's forte was to deliver the last few paragraphs or lines of a story like the key piece of a jigsaw puzzle, causing the thing to click into place and reveal the hidden shape toward which the other pieces had been trending.
Dahl's forte was to deliver the last few paragraphs or lines of a story like the key piece of a jigsaw puzzle, causing the whole thing to click into place and reveal the hidden shape toward which all the other pieces had been furtively trending.
Dahl was fond of misused contraptions (the domestic elevator in "The Way Up to Heaven") and inventions that turn on their creators ("The Sound Machine").
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/26/AR2006102601269.html   (884 words)

  
 Roald Dahl - Author
Roald Dahl was born in Wales on September 13, 1916, to Norwegian parents.
Dahl's father died in 1920, and Roald and his siblings were raised by his mother.
Roald Dahl's childhood was spent in boarding schools and summer trips to Norway.
www.sffworld.com /author/812.html   (517 words)

  
 Pywrit.com - Roald Dahl Biography
Though his mother expected him to attend university after leaving school, Roald Dahl instead found a job with Shell Oil, which sent him to other parts of the world.
In his honor, the Roald Dahl Children's Gallery was opened at Bucks County Museum in nearby Aylesbury.
Dahl's works for children are usually told from the point of view of a child, typically involve adult villains, usually women, who hate and mistreat children, and feature at least one "good" adult to counteract the villain(s).
www.pywrit.com /ebooks/sfd/RoaldDahl/RoaldDahlBio.htm   (1833 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Kiss Kiss: Books: Roald Dahl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Roald Dahl very effectivly creates vile characters with weird and funny viewpoints on life and finishes his stories with a succession of bizarre and macabre twists.
Roald Dahl has a talent for writing original short stories, incorporating hints of subtle horror, humour and unexpected twists in each.
Perverse, inventive and often downright morbid, kiss kiss will be a shock to those only ingratiated with the (rather brilliant) children's stories.
www.amazon.co.uk /Kiss-Roald-Dahl/dp/0140018328   (684 words)

  
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This story, originally published in Dahl's book Kiss Kiss, is another of the "country stories" that deals with Claud and his friends in the English countryside.
Roald Dahl, in his humorous and clever way, describes the secrets that give away the witch.
Set in and around Roald Dahl’s home Gypsy House, the programmes explore the way in which strands of Dahl’s own life were woven into his wildly imaginative stories.
www.lycos.com /info/roald-dahl--children.html?page=2   (643 words)

  
 RoaldDahlFans.com - Timelines
This timeline contains all information about Roald Dahl's life, the books he wrote, and movies, television shows, and theater productions he was involved in.
It continues past his death to the present day (since new Dahl works are still being released).
Roald Dahl dies November 23 in Oxford, England.
www.roalddahlfans.com /timelines.php   (510 words)

  
 boekverslag Kiss kiss door Roald Dahl | scholieren.com
Kiss Kiss is een verzameling van verhalen die ook op een boekenlijst van mevrouw van Gelderen stond en die ben ik toen gaan lezen.
Ik heb uiteindelijk wel het hele boekje gelezen, ook al hoefde ik maar 5 verhalen te lezen voor dit verslag.
Voor dat ik in het boek begon te lezen, verwachtte ik een heel humoristisch boek, omdat dat over het algemeen de schrijfstijl is van Roald Dahl.
www.scholieren.com /boekverslagen/9746   (1491 words)

  
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Dahl flew for the Royal Air Force during World War II, and began to write about his experiences not long after he was grounded following a crash.
She is as keen a collector as her late husband and has managed the cellar since his death in 1990.
Dahl himself emphasised the importance of his hours in his shed, insisting that any story "builds and expands while you are writing it.
www.lycos.com /info/roald-dahl--stories.html?page=2   (438 words)

  
 RoaldDahlFans.com - Articles/Interviews - "The Pied Pipers..." Interview Text   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Roald Dahl was born of Norwegian parents in 1916 in the Welsh town of Llandaff, and was educated at Repton.
Q: Kiss Kiss, your most celebrated collection of short stories, was thought to be very "sick" when it first appeared.
Roald Dahl's children's books include: James and the Giant Peach (1961); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964); Boggis and Bunce and Bean (1970.
www.roalddahlfans.com /articles/piedtext.php   (4081 words)

  
 The Folio Society: Complete Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl's Complete Tales of the Unexpected in a beautiful illustrated Folio Society edition
Compelling, ingenious, disconcerting, bizarre, yet plausible, Roald Dahl's stories take a situation which is familiar and cosy, but quickly reveal startling possibilities, and invariably end with a devilish twist.
Roald Dahl (1916-1990) was born in Llandaff, Wales to Norwegian parents.
www.foliosoc.co.uk /folio/roald_dahl.php   (507 words)

  
 boekverslag Kiss kiss door Roald Dahl | scholieren.com
One day he does goes to a group of women to drink a bit and the women say there's no alcohol in it, but there is. So when he drunk one of the women goes with him and kisses him, he gets scared and thinks he' swallowed.
Mister Roald Dahl was born on September 16, 1916 in Llandaf, South Wales.
Roald attended English schools and graduated from Reton Public School.
www.scholieren.com /boekverslagen/13363   (1456 words)

  
 roald dahl, roald dahl biography, roald dahl poems, roald dahl books, roald dahl facts - Welcome to Norwegian Author ...
Roald Dahl was born to parents who were from Norway, but he was actually born in Wales, 1916.
Among them are Someone Like You, Sweet Mystery Of Life, Kiss Kiss and Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories Tales of the Unexpected and the novel My Uncle Oswald.
Roald Dahl didn't only write books for grown-ups, but also for children, such as James and the Giant Peach, Fantastic Mr.
www.akoot.com /roalddahl.html   (730 words)

  
 Roald Dahl
The family had to sell their jewellery to pay for Dahl's upkeep at a private school in Derbyshire.
When Dahl was 13 he went to a public school named Repton.
Dahl's first children's book, THE GREMLINS (1943), about mischievous little creatures, who eventually join the Allied forces in the Battle of Britain, caught also Walt Disney's attention.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /rdahl.htm   (1425 words)

  
 roald dahl | biography (1916-1990) | gallery | selected books
ROALD DAHL was born in Wales of Norwegian parents.
His first stories were written as entertainment for his own children, to whom many of his books are dedicated.
Roald Dahl is now considered one of the most beloved storytellers of our time.
www.leninimports.com /roald_dahl.html   (1175 words)

  
 Kiss Kiss; The Landlady; William And Mary; The Way Up To Heaven; Parson's P - Roald Dahl - Penguin UK
Kiss Kiss; The Landlady; William And Mary; The Way Up To Heaven; Parson's P - Roald Dahl - Penguin UK home
Kiss Kiss; The Landlady; William And Mary; The Way Up To Heaven; Parson's P
More classic twisted tales from Roald Dahl, which explore desire, deceit and the macabre with shocking results.
www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780140018325,00.html   (143 words)

  
 Kiss Kiss by Roald Dahl - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
Reading/filler copy only: spine creased and slightly cocked with short tears to the corners, cover and corner creasing, piece off the upper corner of the rear cover, cheap paper tanned, name to first page and number written inside the rear cover].
Roald Dahl's renowned collection of eleven romantically inclined, soul-chilling stories about the icy ironies of love.
Dustwrapper is chipped with a small area of loss to the heel of the spine panel and is worn to fold and browned to the internal surface.
www.alibris.com /search/books/qwork/3562091/used/KissKiss   (493 words)

  
 Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl described his life in two books, "Boy" and "Going Solo".
Among them are "Someone Like You", "Sweet Mystery Of Life", "Kiss Kiss" and "Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories".
The baby puts on weight - an alarming amount, though the arms and legs do not grow in proportion; after some months, her skin gets yellow and hairy...
home.rotfl.org /me/r_dahl/r_dahl.html   (926 words)

  
 Kiss Kiss (book) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Without becoming horror, these are some of Dahl's most macabre stories.
"The Champion of the World" is a condensed version of the story that would become Dahl's 1977 children's book, Danny the Champion of the World.
Roald Dahl's Guide to Railway Safety (1991)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kiss_Kiss_(book)   (227 words)

  
 Tales of the Unexpected - Roald Dahl - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
Tales of the Unexpected - Roald Dahl : The Darker Side of Storytelling.
I have to admit that I am unmoved by most other fiction and so the fact that these short stories by Roald Dahl have been able to captivate my attention for so long is extraordinary.
That is the beauty and uniqueness of Dahl's wrtitng; we learn the complexity of the mind and the multifacetted nature of people.
www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/tales-of-the-unexpected-roald-dahl   (307 words)

  
 Roald Dahl: A Pathfinder
Introduction: Roald Dahl (1916-1990) is best known as an author of children’s books like
Scope: This pathfinder is intended for adults who may remember enjoying Roald Dahl as children and who are interested in learning more about Roald Dahl’s life and his body of literature for adults, specifically his short story collections.
Dahl, Roald - Collected short stories of Roald Dahl.
www.unc.edu /~sagriffi/RoaldDahl/RoaldDahl.html   (266 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Kiss/Kiss: Books: Roald Dahl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
It's no wonder "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", "The BFG" and even "Matilda" are thrillingly outrageous stories, because the short pieces in "Kiss Kiss" also display Roald Dahl's macabre and unexpected thoughts.
The experiment itself is also unnerving, as is the short film that Landy watches showing the Russian dog's head licking away food and watching people that gives him the idea for the experiment.
It just goes to show you how imaginative, how remarkable and how successful Dahl was as far as all age groups are concerned during his writing career, and that even his adult stories are as macabre as "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" etc. Truly masterful.
www.amazon.com /Kiss-Roald-Dahl/dp/0140018328   (1141 words)

  
 litblog - Kiss Kiss   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
I even paused in my reading to stroke her and talk to her before going on to the next story.
I must admit, I wouldn't know what to do if someone was making a great fuss over their sudden belief that a stray cat was Lizst reincarnated.
I guessed from the first sentence that something very strange was going on, as this is not Dahl's usual style at all.
www.angelfire.com /art/fibonacci/blog/kiss.html   (359 words)

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