Book description
The Visitor is an amusing and chilling story from Roald Dahl,
the master of the twist in the tale.
In The Visitor, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite
authors, 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).
'One of the most widely read and influential writers of our
generation.' (The Times )
This story is also available as a Penguin digital audio download
read by Richard E. Grant and Derek Jacobi.
Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach,
Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of
short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have
often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West
End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald
Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.
Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales
of Norwegian parents. His books continue to be bestsellers, despite his
death in 1990, and total UK sales are 55 million worldwide! Quentin
Blake is one of the best-known and best-loved children's illustrators
and it's impossible now to think of Roald Dahl's writings without
imagining Quentin Blake's illustrations.
