“My Uncle Oswald” is the only adult (and in every sense an adult) novel by an outstanding master of black humor, one of the best storytellers of our time, an adept of militant cleanliness and gentle misanthropy. We bring to your attention an extensive fragment of the memoirs of “Oswald Hendricks Cornelius, a prominent horseman, bon vivant, collector of spiders, scorpions and canes, a connoisseur and lover of opera, an expert on Chinese porcelain, a seducer of women and, without any doubt, the greatest adulterer of all times,” the hero such classic Dahl stories as “The Night Guest” and “Bitch”. The story of how Uncle Oswald acquired his multimillion-dollar fortune begins with an expedition to Africa to obtain the world's most powerful aphrodisiac; then, to the point of genius, a dashing plan for grandiose enrichment will bring Oswald and his partners together with Pablo Picasso and Auguste Renoir, Marcel Proust and Bernard Shaw, Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, as well as the heads of all the royal houses of Europe... The novel is published in a new translation.