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Uncle Oswald
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Uncle Oswald is a literary character, born in 1895, created by Roald Dahl, who features in the short stories "The Visitor" and "Bitch" and the novel My Uncle Oswald.
Oswald Hendryks Cornelius is a successful womanizer, whose motto is never to sleep with the same woman twice. He is a connoisseur of wine, a bon vivant, a collector of spiders, scorpions and walking-sticks, a lover of opera, an expert on Chinese porcelain, and described as the greatest fornicator of all time. He is also wealthy, apparently as a result of schemes which would in many circles be considered to be somewhat immoral, if not illegal. The two short stories and novel revolve around these themes.
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