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 once said all he wants in life is to enjoy himself. 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. Late in his life he contracts leprosy.
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“Aunt Sally she was one of the mixed-upest looking persons I ever see; except one, and that was uncle Silas, when he come in, and they told it all to him. It kind of made him drunk, as you may say, and he didn’t know nothing at all the rest of the day, and preached a prayer meeting sermon that night that give him a rattling ruputation, because the oldest man in the world couldn’t a understood it.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)