My Uncle Oswald
By Roald Dahl
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Roald Dahl's 1979 comic novel for adults centers on Uncle Oswald, a wealthy, worldly rogue introduced in Dahl's stories "The Visitor" and "Bitch." When Oswald learns of the invigorating powers of the Sudanese Blister Beetle, he devises an outrageous scheme to obtain the seed of the great men of his day, kings, painters, composers, scientists and writers among them, from Renoir and Stravinsky to Einstein and Joyce, and to sell it to women who want children fathered by geniuses.
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