# Cruelty

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- Book: [Cruelty](https://www.bookquiver.com/roald-dahl/cruelty) ([Cruelty.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/roald-dahl/cruelty.md))
- Authors: [Roald Dahl](https://www.bookquiver.com/roald-dahl)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-07-1818-565-7
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2016-08-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A wife pawns her lover's parting gift with unexpected consequences, an unusual painting proves to be more valuable than anyone, especially its owner, could ever have predicted, a husband and wife, unable to get their new baby to feed, hit upon a disturbing solution . . . Cruelty highlights a domestic familiarity always on the edge of something much, much darker. Collected together for the first time, stories include The Butler , The Great Automatic Grammatizator , Royal jelly , Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat , The Swan, Poison , Skin , The Princess and the Poacher , Genesis and Catastrophe and Mr Feasey .