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Title: Mr Hoddy: A Roald Dahl Short Story

Author: Roald Dahl

Narrator: Jessica Hynes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-12

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Mr Hoddy, a short, sharp, amusing story from Roald Dahl, the master of the macabre tale. Read by the actress Jessica Hynes. In Mr Hoddy, Roald Dahl, one of the worlds favourite authors, tells a comic story of human folly. Here, a man trying to convince the father of his beloved of his good prospects unwisely brings up his new career . . .Mr Hoddy is taken from the short story collection Someone Like You, which includes seventeen other devious and shocking stories, featuring the wife who serves a dish that baffles the police; a curious machine that reveals the horrifying truth about plants; the man waiting to be bitten by the venomous snake asleep on his stomach; and others.

This story is also available as a Penguin ebook. 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 Dahls Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahls stories continue to make readers shiver today. Jessica Hynes television work includes: Twenty Twelve, The Royle Family and Spaced. Her film work includes: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix; Shaun of the Dead and Son of Rambow.