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Tales of the Unexpected
Contributor(s): Dahl, Roald (Author)

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 ISBN: 0679729895     ISBN-13: 9780679729891
Publisher: Vintage
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Binding Type: Paperback
Published: July 1990
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Annotation: Dahl is a master at introducing readers to a new sense of what lurks beneath the ordinary.
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Horror - General
- Fiction | Short Stories (single Author)
- Fiction | Fantasy - Humorous
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 89040733
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" L (0.80 lbs) 480 pages
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Publisher Description:
In this collection of stories, Dahl tantalizes, amuses, and sometimes terrifies readers into a sense of what lurks beneath the ordinary. 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.

"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

 
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