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Yesterday was Beautiful (A Roald Dahl Short Story)

Yesterday was Beautiful (A Roald Dahl Short Story)
By:"Roald Dahl"
Published on 2012-09-13 by Penguin UK

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Yesterday was Beautiful is a short, gripping story of life in wartime from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale. In Yesterday was Beautiful, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells of a bailed out pilot in Greece looking for assistance from the natives . . . Yesterday was Beautiful is taken from the short story collection Over to You, which includes nine other dramatic and terrifying tales of life as a wartime fighter pilot, and is drawn from Dahl's own experiences during the Second World War. This story is also available as a Penguin digital audio download read by Juliet Stevenson. 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.

This Book was ranked 28 by Google Books for keyword Roald Dahl.




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