β Scribed by Dahl, Roald
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The nameless narrator has revealed snippets of the lovable, lascivious Uncle Oswald's life in other collections, but this is the only novel--brief though it is--dedicated solely to the diaries of "the greatest fornicator of all time." Inspired by stories of the aphrodisiac powers of the Sudanese blister beetle, the palpable seductiveness of the lovely Yasmin Howcomely, and the scientific know-how of Professor A. R. Woresley, Uncle Oswald anticipates the concept of the Nobel sperm bank by some 40 years, flimflamming crowned heads, great artists, and eccentric geniuses into making "donations." The life of a commercial sperm broker has a few surprises even for a sophisticated bon vivant , and Dahl manages his signature sting-in-the-tail ending even in one of his lightest comic works.
Uncle Oswald, the great rogue and fornicator, has discovered the world's most powerful aphrodisiac and a method of quick-freezing sperm. So with the help of the gorgeous Yasmin Howcomely, he sets out to preserve 51 living geniuses and crowned heads, from James Joyce to King Albert and Henry Ford.
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HIS FIRST NOVEL FOR GROWNUPS From that most dramatically dual of literary personalities, writing not in his classic Π²ΠΡChocolate FactoryΠ²ΠΡ incarnation but as the devilish Dahl of Kiss Kiss and Switch Bitch Π²Πβ here is the ultimate adult romp. Behold Uncle Oswald, Michelangelo of seduction.