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Roald Dahl's first-ever book provides the scurrilous memoirs of this pleasant old reprobate from "Switch Bitch", Oswald Hendryks Cornelius - fanatic, bon vivant, enthusiast of spiders, scorpions, peculiar walking sticks, fan of opera, specialist on Oriental pottery, and undoubtedly the best fornicator of them all. Within this pleasant picaresque tale, it's revealed how Dad Oswald first accomplished great prosperity - all because of the Sundance blister beetle, which-when ground to dust has got the most impressive aphrodisiac qualities. It's 1919 - equipped using the dust and assisted by the stunning amoral Yasmin how comely, Oswald starts an audacious industrial business that involves influencing the absolute most popular men in Europe - from heads to Bernard Shaw and Marcel Proust.