My Uncle Oswald
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| Author | Roald Dahl |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Michael Joseph (UK) |
| Released | October 1979 |
| Media Type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 222 p. (hardback edition) * 208 p. (paperback edition) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-7181-1864-2 (hardback edition) & ISBN 0-14-005577-0 (paperback edition) |
My Uncle Oswald is an adult novel written by Roald Dahl.
The novel stars Uncle Oswald, a character who previously appeared in "The Visitor" and "Bitch", two short stories also written by Roald Dahl (and which can be both found in the book Switch Bitch).
[edit] Plot (contains spoilers)
Oswald discovers the world's most powerful aphrodisiac and with the aid of a female accomplice uses it to seduce the world's most famous men, then sells their semen to women wishing to be impregnated by them.
[edit] Victims of Oswald's plot (in order of appearance in the book)
- Alfonso XIII, King of Spain
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir, a French painter
- Claude Monet, a French painter
- Igor Stravinsky, a Russian composer
- Pablo Picasso, a Spanish painter
- Henri Matisse, a French artist
- Marcel Proust, a French novelist
- Vaslav Nijinsky, a Polish-born Russian ballet dancer and choreographer
- James Joyce, an expatriate Irish writer and poet
- Giacomo Puccini, an Italian operatic composer
- Sergei Rachmaninoff, a Russian composer, conductor and pianist
- Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis
- Albert Einstein, a German-born theoretical physicist
- Thomas Mann, a German novelist
- Joseph Conrad, a Polish-born British novelist
- H. G. Wells, a British writer
- Rudyard Kipling, an Indian-born British author and poet
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a British writer and creator of Sherlock Holmes
- George Bernard Shaw, an Irish-British playwright
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