My Uncle Oswald is a 1979 adult novel written by Roald Dahl. The novel stars Uncle Oswald, a character who previously appeared in "The Visitor" and "Bitch", two short stories also written by Roald Dahl (and which can both be found in the 1974 book Switch Bitch). Plot summary When Uncle Oswald discovers the sexually invigorating properties of the "Sudanese Blister Beetle"', he devises a plan to steal the semen of great men and sell it to women who want to have children fathered by geniuses. Victims Victims of Oswald's plot in order of appearance in the book: Alfonso XIII, King of Spain Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter Claude Monet, French painter Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter. In fact, Uncle Oswald and his accomplice are unsuccessful here: Picasso pounces on the accomplice before she has a chance to use a condom to collect his semen. Henri Matisse, French artist Marcel Proust, French novelist Vaslav Nijinsky, Polish-born Russian ballet dancer and choreographer James Joyce, expatriate Irish writer and poet Giacomo Puccini, Italian operatic composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer, conductor and pianist Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist Thomas Mann, German novelist Joseph Conrad, Polish-born British novelist H. G. Wells, British writer Rudyard Kipling, Indian-born British author and poet Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer and creator of Sherlock Holmes George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright Albert I of Belgium Victor Emmanuel III of Italy Peter I of Serbia George II of Greece Boris III of Bulgaria Ferdinand of Romania Christian X of Denmark Gustaf V of Sweden Reception In his 1980 review, Vance Bourjaily said: Christopher Lehmann-Haupt called it "a festival of bad taste that is at heart so innocent that we soon forgive it and enjoy ourselves," "thoroughly juvenile fun," and said "I haven't had so much fun of this sort since my last all-night joke-telling session at summer camp." Movieweb named it as one of 8 Roald Dahl books that need a screen adaptation. References External links Novels by Roald Dahl 1979 British novels Cultural depictions of Pablo Picasso Cultural depictions of Albert Einstein Cultural depictions of Sigmund Freud Cultural depictions of George Bernard Shaw Cultural depictions of Arthur Conan Doyle Cultural depictions of Marcel Proust Cultural depictions of Claude Monet Cultural depictions of Pierre-Auguste Renoir Cultural depictions of Igor Stravinsky Cultural depictions of H. G. Wells Cultural depictions of Henri