''Skin and Other Stories'' is a collection of short stories written by
Roald Dahl. It was published in 2000 by
Puffin Books
Puffin Books is a longstanding children's imprint of the British publishers Penguin Books. Since the 1960s, it has been among the largest publishers of children's books in the UK and much of the English-speaking world. The imprint now belongs t ...
, a division of
Penguin Putnam Books. Many of these stories first appeared in the Dahl book, ''
Someone Like You'', and also includes the story "The Surgeon", originally published in
''Playboy'' magazine in 1986.
Contents
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Skin
Skin is the layer of usually soft, flexible outer tissue covering the body of a vertebrate animal, with three main functions: protection, regulation, and sensation.
Other animal coverings, such as the arthropod exoskeleton, have different de ...
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Lamb to the Slaughter"
*"The Sound Machine"
*"An African Story"
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Galloping Foxley
"Galloping Foxley" is a short story by Roald Dahl first published in '' Town & Country'' in 1953. It was included in the short-story collection '' Someone Like You'', and was later adapted into an episode of '' Tales of The Unexpected''.
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*"The Wish"
*"The Surgeon"
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Dip in the Pool
"Dip in the Pool" is a macabre short story by British writer Roald Dahl, originally published in the 19 January 1952 edition of ''The New Yorker''. It later appeared in the collection '' Someone Like You'' (1953).
Plot summary
On a British crui ...
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*"The Champion of the World"
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Beware of the Dog
Beware of the dog (also rendered as Beware of dog) is a warning sign indicating that a dangerous dog is within. Such signs may be placed to deter burglary even if there is no dog.
History
Warning signs of this sort have been found in ancie ...
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*"My Lady Love, My Dove"
2000 short story collections
Short story collections by Roald Dahl
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