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Cruelty

By: Roald Dahl
Narrated by: Adrian Scarborough,Andrew Scott,Jessica Hynes,Juliet Stevenson,Mark Heap,Richard E Grant,Stephanie Beacham
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Summary

From Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail, a newly collected audiobook of his darkest stories, read by Will Self, Adrian Scarborough, Stephanie Beacham, Andrew Scott, Richard E Grant, Tamsin Greig, Mark Heap, Juliet Stevenson and Jessica Hynes.

'Cruelty has a human heart....'

Even when we mean to be kind, we can sometimes be cruel. We all have streaks of nastiness inside us. In these ten tales of cruelty, master storyteller Roald Dahl explores how and why it is we make others suffer.

Collected together for the first time, stories include 'The Great Automatic Grammatizator', 'Royal Jelly', 'Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat', 'The Swan', 'Poison', 'Skin', 'The Princess and the Poacher', 'Genesis and Catastrophe' and 'Mr Feasey'.

Dahl understood our deepest secrets, desires and fears, and Cruelty is one of four books - the rest being Lust, Deception and Madness - that explore our hidden selves.

©2016 Roald Dahl (P)2016 Penguin Audio

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Roald Dahl at his best

perfect for commuting where you. want to get locked straight into the story. well read and Roald Dahl at his best

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I really enjoyed these stories, on to the next collection. I would recommend, always fall asleep before the story ends

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Old rehashes

Disappointed in this book which is just a bunch of old and rehashed stories heard before - tales of the unexpected

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