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Tales of the Unexpected
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Includes the story “Poison,” soon to be a short film from Wes Anderson on NetflixIn this collection of stories, Dahl tantalizes, amuses, and sometimes terrifies readers about what lurks beneath the ordinary. • “With the inventive power of a Thomas Edison and the imagination of a Lewis Carroll . . . Roald Dahl is a wizard of comedy and the grotesque, an artist with a marvelously topsy-turvy sense of the ridiculous in life.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer Included in this collection are such notorious gems of the bizarre as “The Second Machine,” “Lamb to the Slaughter,” “Neck,” and “The Landlady.” Other stories explore: A wine connoisseur with an infallible palate and a sinister taste in wagers. A decrepit old man with a masterpiece tattooed on his back. A voracious adventuress, a gentle cuckold, and a garden sculpture that becomes an instrument of sadistic vengeance. Social climbers who climb a bit too quickly. Philanderers whose deceptions are a trifle too ornate. Impeccable servants whose bland masks slip for one vertiginous instant.
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| Weight | 0.33 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.04 × 13.19 × 20.27 cm |
| PubliCanadation City/Country | USA |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 480 |
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| Year Published | 1990-7-14 |
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| ISBN 10 | 0679729895 |
| About The Author | Roald Dahl (1916-1990) was born in Llandaff, South Wales, and went to Repton School in England. His parents were Norwegian, so holidays were spent in Norway. As he explains in Boy, he turned down the idea of university in favor of a job that would take him to 'a wonderful faraway place'. In 1933 he joined the Shell Company, which sent him to Mombasa in East Africa. When World War II began in 1939 he became a fighter pilot and in 1942 was made assistant air attaché in Washington, where he started to write short stories. His first major success as a writer for children was in 1964. Thereafter his children's books brought him increasing popularity, and when he died children mourned the world over, particularly in Britain where he had lived for many years. |
| Table Of Content | TasteLamb to the SlaughterMan from the SouthMy Lady Love, My DoveDip in the PoolGalloping FoxleySkinNeckNunc DimittisThe LandladyWilliam and MaryThe Way Up to HeavenParson's PleasureMrs. Bixby and the Colonel's CoatRoyal JellyEdward the ConquerorThe Sound MachineGeorgy PorgyThe HitchhikerPoisonThe Boy Who Talked with AnimalsThe Umbrella ManGenesis and CatastropheThe Butler |
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