Roald Dahl. My Uncle Oswald

"My Uncle Oswald" is the only adult novel (and in every sense of the word, an adult novel) by this outstanding master of black humor, one of the finest storytellers of our time, an adherent of militant cleanliness and tender misanthropy. We present to your attention an extensive excerpt from the memoirs of "Oswald Hendricks Cornelius, a distinguished equestrian, a bon vivant, a collector of spiders, scorpions, and walking sticks, a connoisseur and lover of opera, an expert on Chinese porcelain, a seducer of women, and, without a doubt, the greatest adulterer of all time and people," the hero of such classic Dahl stories as "The Night Guest" and "Bitch." The story of how Uncle Oswald acquired his multimillion-dollar fortune begins with an expedition to Africa in search of the world's most powerful aphrodisiac; Then, a brilliantly daring plan for grand enrichment will bring Oswald and his partners together with Pablo Picasso and Auguste Renoir, Marcel Proust and Bernard Shaw, Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, as well as the heads of all the royal houses of Europe...
The novel is published in a new translation.