An edition of Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected [24 stories] (1979)

Tales of the Unexpected

Vintage Books ed.

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An edition of Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected [24 stories] (1979)

Tales of the Unexpected

Vintage Books ed.

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  • ★★★ ★ 3.5 (2 ratings) ·
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  • 3 Currently reading
  • 5 Have read

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.

In these deliciously nasty stories an internationally acclaimed practitioner of the short narrative works his own brand of black magic: tantalizing, amusing, and sometimes terrifying readers into a new sense of what lurks beneath the ordinary. Included in Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected are such notorious gems of the bizarre as "The Sound Machine," "Lamb to Slaughter," "Neck," and "The Landlady."

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Vintage Books
Language
English
Pages
471

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Subjects

English Short storiesshort story, horror, black comedy, fiction, detectives, alibi, short story, Cadillacs, cruise ships, betting pools, caregivers, dementia, prefects, World War I, World War II, begging, short stories, caviar, cancer, brain, artificial hearts, Ringer's solution, phantom limbs, widows, Chippendale Commodes, mink coats, pawnbrokers, stoles, beekeepers, royal jelly, grubs, Weihnachtsbaum, Kinderszenen, reincarnation, cats, English nursery rhymes, neurosis, celibacy, vicars, spinsters, sexual repression, seduction, cannibalism, abstinence, soft drinks, summer houses, involuntary commitment, psychiatrists, sadism, Hitchhiking, Pickpockets, Bungarus, Austrian Germans, doctors, Midwives, stockbrokers, Oenophilia

People

Mary Maloney, Patrick Maloney, Carlos, William Botibol, William Perkins, Bruce Foxley, Drioli, Chaim Soutine, Josie, narrator, Basil Turton, Natalia Turton, Major Haddock, Jelks, Henry Moore, Lionel Lampson, Gladys Ponsonby, Janet de Pelagia, John Royden, Billy Weaver, Christopher Mulholland, Gregory W. Temple, William Pearl, Mary Pearl, Landy, Eugene Foster, Mrs Foster, Cyril Boggis, Claud, Bert, Rummins, Mrs. Bixby, Colonel, Miss Pulteney, Albert Taylor, Mabel Taylor, Edward, Louisa, Antonio Vivaldi, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahm, Epictetus, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore Roosevelt, Julius Caesar, Frédéric Chopin, Klausner, George, Lady Birdwell, Miss Roach, hitchhiker, Harry Pope, Timber Woods, Dr. Ganderbai, Klara Hitler, Otto Hitler, Gustav Hitler, Ida Hitler, Alois Hitler, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Mike Schofield, Richard Pratt, Louise Schofield

Places

Jamaica, Paris, Céret, Le Havre, Bristol Hotel, Cannes, Buenos Aires, London, Europe, Fleet Street.Eton College, Cambridge, New York, Chelsea, Buckinghamshire, New York City, Baltimore, Epsom, Derby Day, India, British Empire, Mike Schofield's house

Times

Autumn 1913, 1975

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Published in
New York
Other Titles
Tales of the unexpected
Copyright Date
1987

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR6054.A35 R6 1990, PR6054.A35R6 1990

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
471 p. ;
Number of pages
471

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OL2217228M
Internet Archive
roalddahlstaleso0000dahl
ISBN 10
0679729895
ISBN 13
9780679729891
LCCN
89040733
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7819
Goodreads
394689

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Work Description

Contains:
- Taste
- Lamb to the Slaughter
- Man from the South
- My Lady Love, My Dove
- Dip in the Pool
- Galloping Foxley
- Skin
- Neck
- Nunc Dimittis
- Landlady
- William and Mary
- Way Up to Heaven
- Parson's Pleasure
- Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat
- Royal Jelly
- Edward the Conqueror
- Sound Machine
- Georgy Porgy
- Hitchhiker
- Poison
- The Boy Who Talked with Animals
- The Umbrella Man
- Genesis and Catastrophe
- The Butler

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