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Tales of the Unexpected
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Author: Roald Dahl
Title: Tales of the Unexpected
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 480
Release Date: 1990-07-14
Details: Includes the story "Poison," soon to be a short film from Wes Anderson on Netflix
In this collection of stories, Dahl tantalizes, amuses, and sometimes terrifies readers about what lurks beneath the ordinary. o "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.
EAN: 9780679729891
Package Dimensions: Height: 7.98 inches, Length: 5.19 Inches, Weight: 0.8 Pounds, Width: 0.84 inches
Languages: en
