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The Visitor (A Roald Dahl Short Story)
- Author
- Roald Dahl
- Narrator
- Derek Jacobi, Richard E Grant
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 13 September 2012
- Run Time
- 1 hour 56 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Visitor by Roald Dahl, read by Derek Jacobi and Richard E Grant.
In The Visitor, Roald Dahl tells a funny, fruity story about one of his favourite characters, adventurer and seducer Oswald Hendryks Cornelius. Here, Uncle Oswald gets more than he bargained for in Arabia . . .
The Visitor is taken from the short story collection Switch Bitch, which includes three other black comedies which capture the ins and outs, highs and lows of sex (including another Uncle Oswald story, Bitch).
Critics Review
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One of the most widely read and influential writers of our generation
The Times
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Dahl is too good a storyteller to become predictable
Daily Telegraph
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Details
- Author
- Roald Dahl
- Narrator
- Derek Jacobi, Richard E Grant
- Duration
- 1 hour 56 minutes
- Release Date
- 13 September 2012
- ISBN
- 9780718177850
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Synopsis
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Visitor by Roald Dahl, read by Derek Jacobi and Richard E Grant.In The Visitor, Roald Dahl tells a funny, fruity story about one of his favourite characters, adventurer and seducer Oswald Hendryks Cornelius. Here, Uncle Oswald gets more than he bargained for in Arabia . . .The Visitor is taken from the short story collection Switch Bitch, which includes three other black comedies which capture the ins and outs, highs and lows of sex (including another Uncle Oswald story, Bitch).
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