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More Tales of the Unexpected [9 stories]

  • Roald Dahl

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Roald Dahl can stand on your head, twist you in knots, tie up your hands and leave you gasping for more. In this, his latest selection of short stories the surprises are as wicked and witty as ever. Taken from someone like you, Kiss Kiss and the wonderful world of Henry Sugar, plus four brand new stories, they lure you into a world as full of unease, coincidence and black humour as you could wish. Stories are: Poison Sound Machine Genesis and Catastrophe Georgy Porgy Hitchhiker Umbrella Man Mr Botibol Vengeance in Mine Inc. Butler


Contained in: Completely Unexpected Tales

Genres

  • Fiction
  • Literature
  • Fiction, short stories (single author)
  • short story
  • Bungarus
  • Austrian Germans
  • doctors
  • Midwives
  • English nursery rhymes
  • neurosis
  • celibacy
  • vicars
  • spinsters
  • sexual repression
  • seduction
  • cannibalism
  • abstinence
  • soft drinks
  • summer houses
  • involuntary commitment
  • psychiatrists
  • sadism
  • Hitchhiking
  • Pickpockets
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About the author

  • Roald Dahl

    13 September 1916 - 23 November 1990

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    1426 ratings · 708 works

Editions

  • Edition cover

    Penguin Group UK

    2009

  • Edition cover

    Penguin Books

    January 31, 1980

  • Edition cover

    Large print ed.

    Chivers

    1981

  • Edition cover

    [1st] Penguin Books ed.

    Penguin Books

    1980

Edition cover

Large Print Ed edition

Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C

September 1998

  • Edition cover

    Joseph

    1980

  • Edition cover

    Random House Inc (P)

    July 1985

  • Edition cover

    Large Print Ed edition

    Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C

    April 1998