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    The story reviews Roald Dahl's short story 'Parson's Pleasure'. It provides background on Dahl and summarizes the plot, which involves an antique dealer who tricks farmers into selling him valuable furniture for low prices by disguising himself as a clergyman. In one encounter, a farmer destroys a valuable antique after the dealer tries to trick him into only selling the legs.

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    The story reviews Roald Dahl's short story 'Parson's Pleasure'. It provides background on Dahl and summarizes the plot, which involves an antique dealer who tricks farmers into selling him valuable furniture for low prices by disguising himself as a clergyman. In one encounter, a farmer destroys a valuable antique after the dealer tries to trick him into only selling the legs.

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    REVIEW OF PARSON´S PLEASURE

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    The story reviews Roald Dahl's short story 'Parson's Pleasure'. It provides background on Dahl and summarizes the plot, which involves an antique dealer who tricks farmers into selling him valuable furniture for low prices by disguising himself as a clergyman. In one encounter, a farmer destroys a valuable antique after the dealer tries to trick him into only selling the legs.

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    The story reviews Roald Dahl's short story 'Parson's Pleasure'. It provides background on Dahl and summarizes the plot, which involves an antique dealer who tricks farmers into selling him valuable furniture for low prices by disguising himself as a clergyman. In one encounter, a farmer destroys a valuable antique after the dealer tries to trick him into only selling the legs.

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    REVIEW OF THE HAPPY PRINCE

    “Parson´s Pleasure” is the one of the best short stories that was written by Roald
    Dahl, a talented writer who lived in the 20th century.
    Roald Dahl was born in 1916 at Villa Marie, Fairwater Road, in Llandaff, Cardiff,
    Wales, to Norwegian parents, Harald Dahl and Sofie Magdalene Dahl. Dahl served
    in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, in which he became a flying
    ace and intelligence officer, rising to the rank of acting wing commander. He rose
    to prominence in the 1940s with works for both children and adults and he became
    one of the world's best-selling authors. He has been referred to as "one of the
    greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century". Dahl's short stories are
    known for their unexpected endings and his children's books for their
    unsentimental, macabre, often darkly comic mood, featuring villainous adult
    enemies of the child characters. His books champion the kind-hearted, and feature
    an underlying warm sentiment. Roald Dahl died on 23 November 1990, at the age
    of 74 of a blood disease, in Oxford.
    The title of the short story is “Parson´s Pleasure”. It is a short story written by
    Roald Dahl, first published in the April 1958 issue of Esquire. It is included in
    Dahl's 1960 short story collection Kiss Kiss. The plot of the story takes place in
    England, during the summer, in the second half of 20th century.
    The main character is Mr Cyril Boggis. Also there are some other characters:, the
    residents of farms and country homes of England where story take place.
    Mr Cyril Boggis is an antique dealer in Chelsea, London. He does not have a large
    shop, but he still manages to make a profit each year by buying the most
    remarkable pieces of furniture at very low prices and selling them for large profits.
    He dresses up as a clergyman and visits English farmhouses under the pretenses of
    writing articles for the Society for the Preservation of Rare Furniture. When he
    finds something valuable, he makes the person an offer and then sells the item in
    his shop for twenty times as much. On this particular trip he was astonished to see
    a Chippendale Commode standing in the living room in the house of a farmer.
    Boggis understood that he will be able to sell it for more than twenty thousand
    pounds and started bargaining. When the farmer agreed to sell this commode for
    twenty pounds Boggis went to get his car. As he said that he needs only a new set
    of legs for a table from this commode the farmer decided help him out by cutting
    the legs off. Then he took the axe and broke the commode to pieces. That means
    Mr Boggis lost 20000 pounds. It was the end of the story.
    I think that this is a very interesting short story and not only for children. It has a
    twisted end which can't leave you indifferent.
    Vladislav Timofeychik

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