An edition of Tales of the Unexpected [16 stories] (1979)

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An edition of Tales of the Unexpected [16 stories] (1979)

Roald Dahl's tales of the unexpected.

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Contains:
- Dip in the Pool
- Edward the Conqueror
- Galloping Foxley
- Lamb to the Slaughter
- Landlady
- Man from the South
- Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat
- My Lady Love, My Dove
- Neck
- Nunc Dimittis
- Parson's Pleasure
- Royal Jelly
- Skin
- Taste
- The Way Up to Heaven
- William and Mary


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Completely Unexpected Tales

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Publisher
Joseph
Language
English
Pages
256

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Previews available in: Italian English

Subjects
cancer, brain, artificial hearts, Ringer's solution, phantom limbs, widows, Chippendale Commodes, beekeepers, royal jelly, grubs, World War I, World War II, begging, Weihnachtsbaum, Kinderszenen, reincarnation, cats, prefects, Short horror story, cyanide, Cadillacs, short story, mink coats, pawnbrokers, stoles, caviar, cruise ships, betting pools, caregivers, dementia, Fiction, Literature, English language, Short stories, Fiction, short stories (single author)
People
Eugene Foster, Mrs Foster, William Pearl, Mary Pearl, Landy, Cyril Boggis, Claud, Bert, Rummins, Albert Taylor, Mabel Taylor, Drioli, Chaim Soutine, Josie, narrator, Edward, Louisa, Antonio Vivaldi, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahm, Epictetus, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore Roosevelt, Julius Caesar, Frédéric Chopin, William Perkins, Bruce Foxley, Billy Weaver, Christopher Mulholland, Gregory W. Temple, Carlos, Mrs. Bixby, Colonel, Miss Pulteney, Basil Turton, Natalia Turton, Major Haddock, Jelks, Henry Moore, Lionel Lampson, Gladys Ponsonby, Janet de Pelagia, John Royden, William Botibol
Places
New York, Paris, Chelsea, London, Buckinghamshire, Céret, Le Havre, Bristol Hotel, Cannes, Buenos Aires, Eton College, Cambridge, Jamaica, New York City, Baltimore, Europe, Fleet Street
Times
Autumn 1913

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Storie impreviste
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1979, Joseph
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1979, Penguin Books
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Table of Contents

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Edition Notes

"First published in this edition ... February 1979. Second impression, March 1979."

Other Titles
Tales of the unexpected.

Classifications

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

The Physical Object

Pagination
256 p. ;
Number of pages
256

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4485077M
ISBN 10
0718117514
LCCN
79313944
OCLC/WorldCat
5752051
Library Thing
7819

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