Kiss Kiss (book)

Kiss Kiss
Dust-jacket from the first edition
AuthorRoald Dahl
LanguageEnglish
GenreMacabre, suspense, conte cruel, short stories
PublisherAlfred A. Knopf
Publication date
1960
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages309 pp

Kiss Kiss is a collection of short stories by Roald Dahl, first published in 1960 by Alfred A. Knopf. Most of the constituent stories had been previously published elsewhere.

Contents

It contains the following short stories:

"The Champion of the World" is a condensed version of the story that would become Dahl's 1975 children's book Danny the Champion of the World.

Editions

  • Knopf, New York, 1960, 309 pp.
  • McCleland, Toronto, 1960
  • M. Joseph, London, 1960, 255 pp.
  • Hayakawa, Japan, 1961, Paperback, Japanese as Tales of Menace 1
  • Dell:F128, New York, 1961, 288 pp., paperback
  • Bonnier, Stockholm, 1961, Swedish as Puss puss
  • Penguin:1832, Harmondsworth, 1962, 233 pp., paperback, ISBN 0-14-001832-8 (1973 reprint)
  • Feltrinelli, Milano, 1964, 276 pp, Italian as Kiss Kiss: 11 storie macabre (con humour)
  • Rowohlt, Reinbek, German as Küsschen, Küsschen

Audiobook

Unabridged recordings have been made of all 11 stories and released by Penguin Audiobooks. These are available individually as audio downloads, or together in a CD collection. The narrators are Stephanie Beacham, Juliet Stevenson, Derek Jacobi, Adrian Scarborough, Stephen Mangan and Tamsin Greig.

Critical response

Lorna Bradbury, Deputy Literary Editor for The Daily Telegraph, listed the collection as one of "25 Classic Novels for Teenagers."[2] Zoe Chace of NPR told interviewer Cara Philbin her reactions during reading the collection as a child: "Kiss Kiss is for grown-ups...It was actually the marriages that I remember feeling the worst about...Reading Kiss Kiss is one of the first times I can remember a real-life truth staring back at me from a book. I hadn't yet thought about the nasty tricks adults play on each other just to hurt each other. Particularly, married adults who aren't in love and who might know the other's weakness best. My imagination matured."[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d "All works by Roald Dahl." The New Yorker. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  2. ^ Bradbury, Lorna (5 April 2012). "25 classic novels for teenagers". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
  3. ^ Philbin, Cara (3 July 2012). "Zoe Chace Found An Unwelcome Truth Lurking in Roald Dahl's "Kiss Kiss"". NPR. Retrieved 28 September 2012.

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