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Lamb to the Slaughter Summary

Initially rejected, along with four other stories, by The New Yorker, "Lamb to the Slaughter" eventually appeared in Collier's in 1953, after Knopf published its first collection of Dahl's short stories and established his American reputation. Dahl had been making headway as a professional writer with a spate of tales which, like "Lamb to the Slaughter," reflect aspects of human perversity, cruelty, and violence. "Lamb to the Slaughter" opens with Mary Maloney, the pregnant...

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Roald Dahl Biographies (4)

Roald Dahl

3,187 words, approx. 11 pages

A writer of both children's fiction and short stories for adults, Roald Dahl (1916-1990) is best known as the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the story of a poor boy who because of his ho... Read more

Roald Dahl

5,704 words, approx. 20 pages

Roald Dahl was flying over the African desert for the Royal Air Force during World War II when he was forced to make an emergency landing. He wrote in his first short story, "A Piece of Cake," "I reme... Read more

Roald Dahl

6,285 words, approx. 21 pages

Roald Dahl began his career as a short-story writer after suffering through the horrors of severe canings and other punishments in oppressive British schools during the 1920s and 1930s and after endur... Read more

Roald Dahl

6,613 words, approx. 23 pages

Roald Dahl was one of the most successful writers of children's books ever, both in terms of copies sold and money made. Ten months before his death, the five top-selling children's books in Britain w... Read more

Essays & Analysis (5)

Dahl and Lawrence, A Comparison

857 words, approx. 3 pages

Roald Dahl and DH Lawrence are remarkable and splendid writers. They have their own ways of portraying the characters in their stories. This is most evident in "Tickets, please" by DH Lawrence and "La... Read more

Lamb to the Slaughter, A Review

750 words, approx. 3 pages

Lamb to the slaughter by Roald Dahl is a good short story. It is about a woman called Mary who murders her husband called Patrick and then deceives a shop keeper by making out that her husband is stil... Read more

Book Review of "Lamb of the Slaughter"

1,030 words, approx. 4 pages

"It's the old story. Get the weapon and you have got the man." This is true, unless one the parts is missing and you've only got the other. In this story called "Lamb Of The Slaughter" by Roald Dahl ... Read more

Short Story Comparison Essay

910 words, approx. 4 pages

A close assessment of how Mary the protagonist of "Lamb to the Slaughter", and Vera the protagonist of "The Open Window", uses their creative acting skills towards other characters in both stories de... Read more

Feminism in Dahl's "Lamb to the Slaughter"

1,916 words, approx. 7 pages

In the socially stagnant post-war United States of the early 1950's, Mary Maloney is content with the routine she has established for herself as a homemaker. She spends each day anticipating the retu... Read more

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