‘What a lot of hairy-faced men there are around nowadays’ is the opening line of which book by Roald Dahl?
The Twits The Twits The Twits is a humorous children's book written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake. It was written in 1979, and first published in 1980. "The Twits" was adapted for the stage in November 2007. The idea of "The Twits" was triggered by Dahl's desire to "do something against beards", because he had an acute hatred of them. The first sentence of the story is, "What a lot of hairy-faced men there are around nowadays!" A hideous, vindictive, spiteful couple known as the Twits live together in a brick house without windows (Mr. Twit reasons that this
Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life: The Country Stories of Roald Dahl bull. Mr Rummins is an expert at helping the mating process, in which he can guarantee the gender of the offspring. Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life: The Country Stories of Roald Dahl Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life: The Country Stories of Roald Dahl is a 1989 short story collection by Roald Dahl. The book is a collection of seven of Dahl's stories published in various magazines and collections in the 1940s and 1950s. Containing a lot of black humour, the book contains sickening and grotesque stories about ratcatching, maggot breeding, poaching, and the mysteries and eccentricities of rural life. The