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- Galloping Foxley is a short, sharp story from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale. In Galloping Foxley, Roald Dahl, one of the worlds favourite authors, tells a sinister story about the darker side of human nature.Here, a commuter is disturbed by an encounter with a man he vividly remembers from school. Galloping Foxley is taken from the short story collection Someone Like You.
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- GALLOPING FOXLEY PDF - 'Galloping Foxley' is a short story by Roald Dahl that first appeared in the collection Someone Like You. The story is about an older man, Perkins, whose.
- 'Galloping Foxley' is a short story by Roald Dahl that first appeared in the 1953 collection Someone Like You. The story is about an older man, Perkins, whose daily commute to London is suddenly no longer enjoyable because a new man is intruding. Eventually, Perkins concludes that the new man is Foxley, a senior boy who victimized him in his youth, at boarding school. After a morning spent in.
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Galloping Foxley
Information
- First published:
- November 1953 issue of Town and Country
- Related books:
- Magazine publications:
- Audio Books:
- “Galloping Foxley” read by Richard Griffiths
- Further Tales of the Unexpected read by Geoffrey Palmer, Joanna David, Tom Hollander
- Someone Like You read by Julian Rhind-Tutt, Stephen Mangan, Tamsin Greig, Derek Jacobi, Richard Griffiths, Willl Self, Jessica Hynes, Juliet Stevenson, Adrian Scarborough, Richard E. Grant
- TV Shows:
- Tales of the Unexpected (1979)
Plot Description
This story has a very autobiographical feeling to it, and one can’t help but wonder whether it actually happened to Dahl or not. His feelings about the English Public School system are well-documented (see Boy – Tales of Childhood or Jeremy Treglown’s Roald Dahl: A Biography), and he loads this short story full of so many intense details that it seems unlikely he would ever make such a thing up. Perkins also attends Repton, where Dahl himself went to school.
Spoiler warning! The story, if indeed it can be called that (since there really isn’t much of a plot at all), is about a “contented commuter” named William Perkins. He is a distinguished businessman and prides himself on the regularity and precision with which he goes about his daily routine. One day his peace is shattered, however, when a newcomer joins the usual group waiting for the commuter train. After several days of grudging conversation with this obnoxious man, Perkins suddenly recognizes him as Bruce “Galloping” Foxley, an older boy who sadistically tormented and tortured him for years in school. The entire story then comes to a grinding halt as fifty-year-old memories begin to flood Perkins: warming the toilet seat for Foxley, cleaning Foxley’s study, receiving a beating from Foxley. As Perkins becomes more and more shaken by these memories, he decides to reveal himself to the man and watch his reaction. He leans over and introduces himself: “My name is Perkins – William Perkins – and I was at Repton in 1907.” Imagine his surprise, then, when his companion answers, “I’m glad to meet you. Mine’s Fortescue – Jocelyn Fortescue, Eton 1916.” He is NOT Galloping Foxley!
Reviews
- “The Art of Vengeance” by Joyce Carol Oates (The New York Review of Books)
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Teacher Ideas
- “Galloping Foxley” – Classroom Activities
- Includes a number of questions and exercises pertaining to the story