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Lust

By: Roald Dahl
Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, Gillian Anderson, Jessica Hynes, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Mark Heap, Richard E Grant, Shane Rimmer
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Lust by Roald Dahl, read by Mark Heap, Derek Jacobi, Richard E Grant, Gillian Anderson, Shane Rimmer, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Jessica Hynes.

We fall not in love but in lust . . .

Lust, in all its myriad forms, consumes us. What won't we do to achieve our heart's desire? In these ten tales of twisted love master storyteller Roald Dahl explores how our darkest impulses reveal who we really are.

Collected together for the first time, stories include Madame Rosette, Neck, Georgy Porgy, The Visitor, The Last Act, The Great Switcheroo, Bitch, Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, The Ratcatcher and Nunc Dimittis.

 Anthologies & Short Stories Contemporary Contemporary Romance Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Romance Short Stories Women's Fiction Marriage Comedy
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From Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail, a newly collected book of his darkest stories
One of the most widely read and influential writers
The absolute master of the twist in the tale
Roald Dahl is one of the few writers I know whose work can accurately be described as addictive
Dahl is too good a storyteller to become predictable
One of the most widely read and influential writers of our generation
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All the stories have a strange atmosphere but each is very clever, written by a master author and beautifully read.

Great selection of short stories

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Fantastic book. Highly recommend. Loved every minute of it 😁 (Oops, 15 word minimum apparently lol)

Outstanding!

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Roald Dahl's short stories are among the greatest ever written and the performers do a wonderful job, that cannot be argued. It is a bit disappointing that Penguin have decided to split up their definitive collection 'Completely Unexpected Tales' and, instead, produce a series of shorter collections based on arbitrarily decided themes. Curiously, one of the stories (The Umbrella Man) is included in two of the collections. Can't really knock the content but would have preferred it to have remained in the same length as the printed version.

Given the extra cost now associated with spreading the stories over several collections, it is very lazy to not title the Chapters. Each story has a title - they are not chapters in a novel.

Brilliant performance but lazily collected series.

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I love RD and this is fun at some level, but predictable and indulgent. Some fantasies are best left in your head.

Roald Dahl meets Joan Collins

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Some are wonderful, some are seemingly without purpose. The performances are largely golden, though I had to skip one chapter completely due to its poor rendition

A mixed bag

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