Georgy Porgy A Roald Dahl Short Story

Author : Roald Dahl
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781405910965

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Georgy Porgy (A Roald Dahl Short Story) by Roald Dahl Pdf

Georgy Porgy is a brilliant gem of a short story from Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail. In Georgy Porgy, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a sinister story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a young curate has very, very good reasons to be afraid of his parishioners . . . Georgy Porgy is taken from the short story collection Kiss Kiss, which includes ten other devious and shocking stories, featuring the wife who pawns the mink coat from her lover with unexpected results; the priceless piece of furniture that is the subject of a deceitful bargain; a wronged woman taking revenge on her dead husband, and others. 'Unnerving bedtime stories, subtle, proficient, hair-raising and done to a turn.' (San Francisco Chronicle ) This story is also available as a Penguin digital audio download read by Derek Jacobi. Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.

Author : Roald Dahl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:734057038

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Georgy Porgy by Roald Dahl Pdf

Author : Dan McIntyre
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027233356

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Point of View in Plays by Dan McIntyre Pdf

This is the first book-length study of how point of view is manifested linguistically in dramatic texts. It examines such issues as how readers process the shifts in viewpoint that can occur within such texts. Using insights from cognitive linguistics, the book aims to explain how the analysis of point of view in drama can be undertaken, and how this is fruitful for understanding textual and discoursal effects in this genre. Following on from a consideration of existing frameworks for the analysis of point of view, a cognitive approach to deixis is suggested as being particularly profitable for explaining the viewpoint effects that can arise in dramatic texts. To expand on the large number of examples discussed throughout the book, the penultimate chapter consists of an extended analysis of a single play. This book is relevant to scholars in a range of areas, including linguistics, literary studies and cognitive science.

Author : Tom Solomon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 9781781383391

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Roald Dahl's Marvellous Medicine by Tom Solomon Pdf

Most people know Roald Dahl as a famous writer of children's books and adult short stories, but few are aware of his fascination with medicine. Right from his earliest days to the end of his life, Dahl was intrigued by what doctors do, and why they do it. During his lifetime, he and his family suffered some terrible medical tragedies: Dahl nearly died when his fighter plane went down in World War II; his son had severe brain injury in an accident; and his daughter died of measles infection of the brain. But he also had some medical triumphs: he dragged himself back to health after the plane crash, despite a skull fracture, back injuries, and blindness; he was responsible for inventing a medical device (the Wade-Dahl-Till valve) to treat his son's hydrocephalus (water on the brain), and he taught his first wife Patricia to talk again after a devastating stroke. His medical interactions clearly influenced some of his writing - for example the explosive potions in George's Marvellous Medicine. And sometimes his writing impacted on events in his life - for example the research on neuroanatomy he did for his short story William and Mary later helped him design the valve for treating hydrocephalus. In this unique book, Professor Tom Solomon, who looked after Dahl towards the end of his life, examines Dahl's fascination with medicine. Taking examples from Dahl's life, and illustrated with excerpts from his writing, the book uses Dahl's medical interactions as a starting point to explore some extraordinary areas of medical science. Solomon is an award-winning science communicator, and he effortlessly explains the medical concepts underpinning the stories, in language that everyone can understand. The book is also peppered with anecdotes from Dahl''s late night hospital discussions with Solomon, which give new insights into this remarkable man's thinking as his life came to an end.

Author : Roald Dahl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Short stories, English
ISBN : 0600555712

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Kiss, Kiss by Roald Dahl Pdf

Author : Damian Walford Davies
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783169412

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Roald Dahl by Damian Walford Davies Pdf

Published to mark the centenary of Roald Dahl’s (Welsh) birth, Roald Dahl: Wales of the Unexpected breaks new ground by revealing the place of Wales in the imagination of the writer known as ‘the world’s number one storyteller’. Exploring the complex conditioning presence of Wales in his life and work, the essays in this collection dramatically defamiliarise Dahl and in the process render him uncanny. Importantly, Dahl is encountered whole – his books for children and his fiction for adults are read as mutually invigorating bodies of work, both of which evidence the ways in which Wales, and the author’s Anglo-Welsh orientation, demand articulation throughout the career. Recognising the impossibility of constructing a monolithic ‘Welsh’ Dahl, the contributors explore the compound and nuanced ways in which Wales signifies across the oeuvre. Roald Dahl: Wales of the Unexpected takes Dahl studies into new territory in terms of both subject and method, showing the new horizons that open up when Dahl is read through a Welsh lens. Locating Dahl in illuminating new textual networks, resourcefully offering fresh angles of entry into classic Dahl texts, rehabilitating neglected Dahl texts, and analysing the layered genesis of (seemingly) familiar works by excavating the manuscripts, this innovative volume brings Dahl ‘home’ in order to render him invigoratingly unhomely. The result is not a parochialisation of Dahl, but rather a new internationalisation.

Author : Alan Warren
Publisher : Starmont House
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040951944

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Roald Dahl by Alan Warren Pdf

Author : Roald Dahl
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781405911276

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Madame Rosette (A Roald Dahl Short Story) by Roald Dahl Pdf

Madame Rosette is a short, gripping story of life in wartime from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale. In Madame Rosette, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells of three fighter pilots who go in search of female company and get more than they bargained for - a lot more. Madame Rosette is taken from the short story collection Over to You, which includes nine other dramatic and terrifying tales of life as a wartime fighter pilot, and is drawn from Dahl's own experiences during the Second World War. This story is also available as a Penguin digital audio download read by Julian Rhind-Tutt. Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.

Author : Don D'Ammassa
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 1657 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Fantasy fiction, American
ISBN : 9781438140636

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Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction by Don D'Ammassa Pdf

Presents articles on the horror and fantasy genres of fiction, including authors, themes, significant works, and awards.

Author : Roald Dahl
Publisher : Michael Joseph
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0241955750

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More Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl Pdf

The late Roald Dahl was acknowledged as a master of the macabre and the unexpected. This collection contains nine of his best short stories, including 'Georgy Porgy', 'Poison' and 'The Sound Machine'.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 958 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Short stories
ISBN : UOM:49015003032803

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Short Story Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015078266726

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Short Story Index: 1964-1968 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Roald Dahl
Publisher : ePenguin
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UCSC:32106009121077

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More Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl Pdf

Dahl is a master at introducing readers to a new sense of what lurks beneath the ordinary.

Author : Darrell Schweitzer
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1985-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781587150104

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Discovering Modern Horror Fiction by Darrell Schweitzer Pdf

Author : Thomas Riggs
Publisher : Saint James Press
Page : 1258 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : PSU:000043995066

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Reference Guide to Short Fiction by Thomas Riggs Pdf

Reference Guide to Short Fiction provides study and commentary on the most instrumental writers of short fiction through the 20th century. International in scope, this single scholarly volume includes 779 entries on 377 authors and 402 short stories.