{"product_id":"my-uncle-oswald-isbn-9780241955765","title":"My Uncle Oswald","description":"Meet Oswald Hendryks Cornelius, Roald Dahl's most disgraceful and extraordinary character . . .   Aside  from being thoroughly debauched, strikingly attractive and  astonishingly wealthy, Uncle Oswald was the greatest bounder, bon vivant  and fornicator of all time. In this instalment of his scorchingly frank  memoirs he tells of his early career and erotic education at the hands  of a number of enthusiastic teachers, of discovering the invigorating  properties of the Sudanese Blister Beetle, and of the gorgeous Yasmin  Howcomely, his electrifying partner in a most unusual series of thefts .  . .  'Raunchy and cheeky entertainment' Sunday Express  'Immense fun' Daily Telegraph  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.\"One of the most widely read and influential writers of our generation.\"\u003cbr\u003e — \u003cb\u003eThe Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Immense fun.\" — \u003cb\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Raunchy exuberance and cheeky entertainment.\"\u003cbr\u003e — \u003cb\u003eSunday Express\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Deliciously silly.\" — \u003cb\u003eObserver\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What can be said is that \u003ci\u003eMy Uncle Oswald \u003c\/i\u003eprovides four or five hours  of effortless reading and some amusing scenes, mostly of the kind film  makers have taught us to call soft porn—so soft, indeed, that at times  they turn out almost fluffy.\u003cp\u003eThe tone is that of a gentleman telling ribald anecdotes to his male  guests after dinner. The leer is civilized . . . the dialog gets mean and  raunchy, but the physical detail is kept decorous. . . . Mr. Dahl's guests  are not invited to vicarious orgy, then, nor will they hear a disguised  lecture by a wicked satirist of morals and manners.\"\u003c\/p\u003e — \u003cb\u003eVance Bourjaily\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A festival of bad taste that is at heart so innocent that we soon forgive it and enjoy ourselves . . . thoroughly juvenile fun . . . I haven't had so much fun of this sort since my last all-night joke-telling session at summer camp.\" — \u003cb\u003eChristopher Lehman-Haupt\u003c\/b\u003eRoald 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.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304722256101,"sku":"NP9780241955765","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780241955765.jpg?v=1767733394","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/my-uncle-oswald-isbn-9780241955765","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}