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An edition of More Tales of the Unexpected [9 stories] (1980)

More Tales of the Unexpected

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Roald Dahl can stand on your head, twist you in knots, tie up your hands and leave you gasping for more. In this, his latest selection of short stories the surprises are as wicked and witty as ever. Taken from someone like you, Kiss Kiss and the wonderful world of Henry Sugar, plus four brand new stories, they lure you into a world as full of unease, coincidence and black humour as you could wish. Stories are:
Poison
Sound Machine
Genesis and Catastrophe
Georgy Porgy
Hitchhiker
Umbrella Man
Mr Botibol
Vengeance in Mine Inc.
Butler


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Completely Unexpected Tales

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Penguin Books
Pages
128

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Subjects
Fiction, Literature, Fiction, short stories (single author), short story, Bungarus, Austrian Germans, doctors, Midwives, English nursery rhymes, neurosis, celibacy, vicars, spinsters, sexual repression, seduction, cannibalism, abstinence, soft drinks, summer houses, involuntary commitment, psychiatrists, sadism, Hitchhiking, Pickpockets
People
Harry Pope, Timber Woods, Dr. Ganderbai, Klausner, Klara Hitler, Otto Hitler, Gustav Hitler, Ida Hitler, Alois Hitler, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), George, Lady Birdwell, Miss Roach, narrator, hitchhiker
Places
India, British Empire, London, Epsom, Derby Day
Times
1975

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More Tales of the Unexpected
2009, Penguin Group UK
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More Tales of the Unexpected (Camden)
September 1998, Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C
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April 1998, Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C
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More Tales of the Unexpected
July 1985, Random House Inc (P)
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1981, Chivers
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More Roald Dahl tales of the unexpected.
1980, Joseph
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1980, Penguin Books
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More Tales of the Unexpected
January 31, 1980, Penguin Books
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Middlesex, England

First Sentence

"It must have been around midnight when I drove home, and as I approached the gates of the bungalow I switched off the headlamps of the car so the beam wouldn't swing in through the window of the side bedroom and wake Harry Pope."

Table of Contents

Poison. 7
The Sound Machine. 19
Georgy Porgy. 33
Genesis and Catastrophe. 57
The Hitch-hiker. 64
The Umbrella Man. 76
Mr Botibol. 83
Vengeance is Mine Inc. 104
The Butler. 124

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Copyright Date
1949, 1950, 1958, 1959, 1973, 1977, 1980

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
128

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Open Library
OL7346702M
Internet Archive
moretalesofunexp0000roal
ISBN 10
0140056068
ISBN 13
9780140056068
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7480393
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183381

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