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If you want to know what happens when a baby is fed on bees' royal jelly.. .when Mrs Bixby pawns her ravishing mink coat.. .when Mr Pearl's brain lives on, in a basin, after death...
If your taste is for the macabre, the sick, the outrageous, the unexpected, the horrifying - Roald Dahl will give you orgiastic delight. If not, you are going to miss one of the most sophisticated collections of short stories in print.
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macabre, diners, cannibalism, Weihnachtsbaum, Kinderszenen, reincarnation, cats, Austrian Germans, doctors, Midwives, English nursery rhymes, neurosis, celibacy, vicars, spinsters, sexual repression, seduction, abstinence, soft drinks, summer houses, involuntary commitment, psychiatrists, sadism, beekeepers, royal jelly, grubs, mink coats, pawnbrokers, stoles, Short horror stories, cyanide, short stories, cancer, brain, artificial hearts, Ringer's solution, phantom limbs, widows, Chippendale Commodes, Fiction, English Short stories, Fiction, short stories (single author), English literature, Fiction, generalPeople
Lexington, Aunt Glosspan, Mr. Zuckermann, Claud, Edward, Louisa, Antonio Vivaldi, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahm, Epictetus, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore Roosevelt, Julius Caesar, Frédéric Chopin, Klara Hitler, Otto Hitler, Gustav Hitler, Ida Hitler, Alois Hitler, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), George, Lady Birdwell, Miss Roach, Albert Taylor, Mabel Taylor, Mrs. Bixby, Colonel, Miss Pulteney, Billy Weaver, Christopher Mulholland, Gregory W. Temple, William Pearl, Mary Pearl, Landy, Eugene Foster, Mrs Foster, Cyril Boggis, Bert, RumminsPlaces
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Küßchen, Küßchen....und noch ein Küßchen. Ungewöhnliche Geschichten.
2001-09, Rowohlt TB-V. Rnb.
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Contains:
Landlady
William and Mary
The Way Up to Heaven
Parson's Pleasure
Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat
Royal Jelly
Georgy Porgy
Genesis and Catastrophe
Edward the Conqueror
Pig
Champion of the World
Contained in:
Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl: Volume I
Kiss, Kiss / Switch Bitch / My Uncle Oswald
Kiss, Kiss / Over to You / Switch Bitch / Someone Like You / Four Tales of the Unexpected / My Uncle Oswald
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