Kiss Kiss (book)

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name = Kiss Kiss
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image_caption = Dust-jacket from the first edition
author = Roald Dahl
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Fantasy Science fiction short stories
publisher = Alfred A. Knopf
release_date = 1960
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 309 pp
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"Kiss Kiss" is a collection of short stories by Roald Dahl, first published in 1960 by Alfred Knopf. Most of the constituent stories had been previously published elsewhere.

It contains the following short stories:

*"The Landlady"
*"William and Mary"
*"The Way Up to Heaven"
*"Parson's Pleasure"
*"Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat"
*"Royal Jelly"
*"Georgy Porgy"
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*"Edward the Conqueror"
*"Pig"
*"The Champion of the World"

Without becoming horror, these are some of Dahl's most macabre stories. Delicately, the naïve punish the wicked, but also the other way around.

"The Champion of the World" is a condensed version of the story that would become Dahl's 1977 children's book, "Danny the Champion of the World".

Trivia

* The band Kiss Kiss is named after this book.

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)
* Rowohlt, Reinbek, German as "Küsschen, Küsschen"

ee also

* Switch Bitch
* Tales of the Unexpected (book)

References

*cite book | last=Tuck | first=Donald H. | authorlink=Donald H. Tuck | title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy | location=Chicago | publisher=Advent | pages=125 | date=1974|id=ISBN 0-911682-20-1