Principally
a children's writer, although his short stories for adults are
also well known. In the past Dahl's books for children often met
with disapproval due to the unpleasant ends met by some of his
characters - which is of course precisely what the children seem
to enjoy.
Adult Novels
Sometime Never, Scribner's (U.S.),
1948
ditto, Collins, 1949
My Uncle Oswald, Joseph, 1979
ditto, Knopf (U.S.), 1980
Short Stories
Over to You, Reynal & Hitchcock
(U.S.), 1946
ditto, Hamish Hamilton, 1946
Someone Like You, Knopf (U.S.), 1953
ditto, Secker & Warburg, 1954
Kiss Kiss, Knopf (U.S.), 1960
ditto, Joseph, 1960
A Roald Dahl Selection, Longmans (U.S.), 1960
(wraps)
Selected Short Stories, Modern Library (U.S.), 1968
(wraps)
