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

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

Roald Dahl's Tales of the unexpected.

1st ed.; Media tie-in

by

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

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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Publisher
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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Tales of the Unexpected
1990-07, Vintage Books
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July 1990, Tandem Library
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Roald Dahl's Tales of the unexpected.
1979, Vintage Books
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Table of Contents

Taste --
Lamb to the slaughter --
Man from the South --
My lady love, my dove --
Dip in the pool --
Galloping Foxley --
Skin --
Neck --
Nunc Dimittis --
The landlady --
William and Mary --
The way up to heaven --
Parson's pleasure --
Mrs. Bixby and the colonel's coat --
Royal jelly --
Edward the Conqueror --
The sound machine --
Georgy Porgy --
The hitchhiker --
Poison --
The boy who talked with animals --
The umbrella man --
Genesis and catastrophe --
The butler.

Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Other Titles
Tales of the unexpected.
Copyright Date
1979

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.9/14
Library of Congress
PZ3.D1373 Ro 1979, PR6054.A35 Ro 1979

The Physical Object

Format
Mass Market Paperback
Pagination
vi, 471 p. ;
Number of pages
471

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4403569M
ISBN 10
0394740815
ISBN 13
9780394740812
LCCN
79005079
OCLC/WorldCat
144585396
Library Thing
7819
Goodreads
364187

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