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 were ones he had written. In 1989 more than 2,300,000 c...

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 enduring the horrors of military service as a Royal Air For...

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 remember the dipping of the nose of the aircraft and I rem...

Media Bias: MSNBC would be fairer and more balanced with Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean on the air instead of Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews. Where is its "Fairness Doctrine"?After the Senate's immigration amnesty bill lost for the second time last month, Senate Minority...

Hail Hillary Clinton! Praise Jeanine Pirro! New York politics has just gotten interesting again, and just in time. The two women who seem likely to contest next year’s U.S. Senatorial election certainly have their faults, of course. To her detractors, Mrs. Clinton is cold and...

The old year hasn't really ended. The new year is still making up its mind. It's a time for the crumbs-the morsels left over from the banquet that fall on the floor for the dogs.The movies are off to a roaring thud. Michael Keaton is...

A feminist explication of Roald Dahl's 1951 short story "Lamb to the Slaughter," in which a subservient housewife murders her husband upon hearing the news that he wants to leave her. After clubbing him in the head with a frozen leg of lamb, she cooks it and feeds it to the male detectives to dispose of the evidence.

A book review of "Lamb of the Slaughter," a novel by Roald Dahl

A close assessment of how Mary the protagonist of "Lamb to the Slaughter", and Vera the protagonist of "The Open Window", use their creative acting skills towards other characters in both stories demonstrates how both authors use their stories to show that there is a different side to everybody and also show their readers that what a person looks like on the outside is not necessarily the same person on the inside.