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The Butler

Roald Dahl

First published September 1979
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

"A British butler and a French chef outwit an obnoxious nouveau riche millionaire." (RoaldDahlFans.com)

First published as "The Butler Did It" in Travel and Leisure, May 1974.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
September 1979 Cover Tales of the Unexpected Vintage Books Collection 467
1980 Cover More Tales of the Unexpected Penguin Books Collection 124
September 1986 Cover Completely Unexpected Tales Penguin Books Omnibus
November 1989 Cover Someone Like You: and Other Short Stories Le Livre de Poche Collection 35
August 1990 Cover Tales of the Unexpected Vintage Books Collection
September 1991 The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl Michael Joseph Omnibus 702
1995 Cover Lamb to the Slaughter and Other Stories Penguin Books Collection 83
May 1998 Cover The Umbrella Man and Other Stories Viking Collection 49
March 2000 Cover Ten Short Stories Penguin Books Collection 22
July 2000 Cover The Umbrella Man and Other Stories Puffin / Penguin Books (US) Collection 49
September 2001 Cover The Great Automatic Grammatizator and Other Stories Puffin / Penguin Books (UK) Collection 48
October 2006 Cover Collected Stories Alfred A. Knopf Collection 745
November 2008 Cover The Umbrella Man and Other Stories Paw Prints Collection |49
June 2013 Cover The Umbrella Man and Other Stories Speak / Penguin Books (US) Collection |3
September 2013 Cover The Great Automatic Grammatizator and Other Stories Puffin Collection