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The Landlady by Roald Dahl is a short story about a young man in search of lodgings that is taken in by a seemingly kind and gentle landlady. Read more here. Kick off SY24-25 with our Pre-Assessment to gauge student performance and plan strong instruction.
The landlady assures Billy that her Mulholland was a Cambridge undergraduate, and that Mulholland and Temple are still staying upstairs in her boarding-house. She says that Billy is a handsome young man, as were the two other guests.
The landlady explains to Billy that the second floor is hers and the third floor is all his. As the landlady leads Billy to his room, she mistakenly calls him “Mr. Perkins” and Billy corrects her. Once inside the room, the landlady tells Billy that she has left a hot water bottle between the neatly tucked bedsheets.
THE LANDLADY. ROALD DAHL. Billy Weaver had travelled down from London on the slow afternoon train, with a change at Swindon on the way, and by the time he got to Bath it was about nine o’clock in the evening and the moon was coming up out of a clear starry sky over the houses opposite the station entrance. But the air was deadly cold and the ...
The landlady’s assertion that Mr. Mulholland and Mr. Temple are upstairs contradicts the appearance that Billy is the only guest staying at this Bed and Breakfast. This new information is confusing and strange, and if this Mr. Mulholland is the same as the Christopher Mulholland who Billy read about in the newspapers, it suggests that the ...
Overview. “The Landlady” is a short story by Roald Dahl that was originally published in the November 28, 1959 issue of The New Yorker. It is the story of a young man who stops at a bed and breakfast where things are more than meet the eye. Fans of the writer will recognize elements of his style: humor and horror, and a bit of the supernatural.
