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An edition of Tales of the Unexpected [16 stories] (1979)
By Roald Dahl
Publish Date
1979
Publisher
Penguin Books
Language
eng
Pages
286
Description:
Contains: - [Dip in the Pool](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504442W/Dip_in_the_Pool) - [Edward the Conqueror](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504274W/Edward_the_Conqueror) - [Galloping Foxley](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504444W/Galloping_Foxley) - [Lamb to the Slaughter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504418W/Lamb_to_the_Slaughter) - [Landlady](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504259W/Landlady) - [Man from the South](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504421W/Man_from_the_South) - [Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3985404W/Mrs._Bixby_and_the_Colonel's_Coat) - [My Lady Love, My Dove](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504441W/My_Lady_Love_My_Dove) - [Neck](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504509W/Neck) - [Nunc Dimittis](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504524W/Nunc_Dimittis) - [Parson's Pleasure](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8318648W/Parson's_Pleasure) - [Royal Jelly](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504271W/Royal_Jelly) - [Skin](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504460W/Skin) - [Taste](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15091200W/Taste) - [The Way Up to Heaven](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504268W/The_Way_Up_to_Heaven) - [William and Mary](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504266W/William_and_Mary) ---------- Contained in: [Completely Unexpected Tales](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL45795W)
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