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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 Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected is a delightfully dark collection of sixteen stories, each with a startling end. Among the unforgettable characters lurk the homicidal wife and her deadly leg of lamb, a conniving and lecherous wine connoisseur and the one-eyed brain at the mercy of his vengeful spouse. Tales of the Unexpected is an astonishing assortment of twisted treats from the master storyteller.
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Tales of the Unexpected, Roald Dahl
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- Released
- 2008
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- Title
- Tales of the Unexpected
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Roald Dahl
- Publisher
- Penguin Group (Australia)
- Released
- 2008
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN10
- 0141037571
- ISBN13
- 9780141037578
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Fantasy, Mystery Novels, Humor, Classics, Short Stories, Horror, Horror Short Stories
- First published
- 1953
- Original title
- Someone Like You
- Rating
- 4.2 out of 5
- Description
- 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 Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected is a delightfully dark collection of sixteen stories, each with a startling end. Among the unforgettable characters lurk the homicidal wife and her deadly leg of lamb, a conniving and lecherous wine connoisseur and the one-eyed brain at the mercy of his vengeful spouse. Tales of the Unexpected is an astonishing assortment of twisted treats from the master storyteller.