The Great Automatic Grammatizator
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The Great Automatic Grammatizator (published in the U.S. as The Umbrella Man and Other Stories) is a collection of thirteen short stories written by British author Roald Dahl. The stories were selected for teenagers from Dahl's adult works. All the stories included were published elsewhere originally; their sources are noted below. The stories, with the exception of the war story Katina, possess a deadpan, ironic, bizarre or even macabre sense of humor. They generally end with unexpected plot twists.
[edit] The Stories
- The Great Automatic Grammatizator (from Someone Like You)
- Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat (from Kiss Kiss)
- The Butler (from More Tales of the Unexpected)
- Man from the South (from Someone Like You)
- The Landlady (from Kiss Kiss)
- Parson's Pleasure (from Kiss Kiss)
- The Umbrella Man (from More Tales of the Unexpected)
- Katina (from Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying)
- The Way Up to Heaven (from Kiss Kiss)
- Royal Jelly (from Kiss Kiss)
- Vengeance is Mine Inc. (from More Tales of the Unexpected)
- Taste (from Someone Like You)
- Neck (from Someone Like You)
