{"product_id":"books-the-best-of-roald-dahl-by-roald-dahl","title":"The Best of Roald Dahl","description":"\u003cb\u003eIncludes the story The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar now an ACADEMY AWARD(R)-winning short film from Wes Anderson on Netflix \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA collection of the best short stories from a writer with an ingenious imagination, a fascination with odd and ordinary detail, and a lust for its thorough exploitation \u003ci\u003e(The New York Times Book Review). \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf Stephen King could write with murderous concision, he might have come up with The Landlady, the story of a boarding house with an oddly talented proprietress and a small but permanent clientele. If Clive Barker had a sense of humor, he might have written Pig, a brutally funny look at cooks and vegetarianism. And a more bloodthirsty Jorge Luis Borges might have imagined the fanatical little gambler in Man From the South, who does his betting with a hammer, nails, and a butcher knife. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut all these stories in this volume were written by Roald Dahl, whose genius for the horrific and grotesque is unparalleled and entirely his own.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53771988599057,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780140066944.jpg?v=1783971326","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-the-best-of-roald-dahl-by-roald-dahl","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}