The Complete Tales of the Unexpected
Author | : Roald Dahl |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780563528722 |
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Author | : Roald Dahl |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780563528722 |
Author | : Roald Dahl |
Publisher | : ePenguin |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Dahl is a master at introducing readers to a new sense of what lurks beneath the ordinary.
Author | : H.G. Wells |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2023-09-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3368933108 |
Reproduction of the original.
Author | : Roald Dahl |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0140098208 |
Take a pinch of unease. Stir it into a large dollop of the macabre, add a generous helping of dark and stylish wit, garnish with the bizarre and what do you have? Roald Dahl at his brilliant, hypnotizing best, cooking up some of the most unusual stories ever told. Here in one volume are Tales of the Unexpected and More Tales of the Unexpected, making this a superb compendium of vengeance, surprise and dark delight.
Author | : Steve Berry |
Publisher | : Vertebrate Publishing |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2015-02-15 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1909461113 |
Born in the foothills close to the Himalaya Steve Berry had from an early age an urge to become a traveller, an adventurer, an explorer, and until the age of thirty-eight years he tried hard to satisfy two opposing forces. Half of him wanted to find a satisfactory career path while the other half wanted to be free and specifically explore the Himalaya. In the end he found a compromise to satisfy both needs. In 1987 with his climbing friend Steve Bell he founded Himalayan Kingdoms, a travel company specialising in trekking and expedition holidays. This book is a collection of stories from his early expeditions to the Himalaya prior to 1987. There are tales of encounters with bears, escapes from avalanches, summit successes and failures, love stories mystical connections, Himalayan storms, near death accidents, raw travel across the Indian sub-continent, and grapples with bureaucracy. It is told warts and all. It starts with tales of youthful naivety in the mountains of Himachal Pradesh, progresses to what Steve describes as his best ever adventure, the first British ascent of Nun, 7,135m/23,410ft, in Kashmir, and finishes with the truth of what happened on the failed attempt to climb Bhutan's highest peak, Gangkar Punsum, 7550m/24,770ft. Of Straight Up Steve says: 'I just really wanted people to enjoy reading of our adventures the way they were.'
Author | : Roald Dahl |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2012-08-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101605421 |
Meet Oswald Hendryks Cornelius, Roald Dahl's most disgraceful and extraordinary character . . . Aside from being thoroughly debauched, strikingly attractive and astonishingly wealthy, Uncle Oswald was the greatest bounder, bon vivant and fornicator of all time. In this instalment of his scorchingly frank memoirs he tells of his early career and erotic education at the hands of a number of enthusiastic teachers, of discovering the invigorating properties of the Sudanese Blister Beetle, and of the gorgeous Yasmin Howcomely, his electrifying partner in a most unusual series of thefts . . . 'Raunchy and cheeky entertainment' Sunday Express 'Immense fun' Daily Telegraph Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.
Author | : Clarice Lispector |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 2022-04-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0241600596 |
The publication of Clarice Lispector's Collected Stories, eighty-five in all, is a major literary event. Now, for the first time in English, are all the stories that made her a Brazilian legend: from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies to old people who don't know what to do with themselves. Lispector's stories take us through their lives - and ours. From one of the greatest modern writers, these 85 stories, gathered from the nine collections published during her lifetime, follow Clarice Lispector throughout her life.
Author | : Kate Bernheimer |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2011-03-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1573661597 |
As a child, Lucy dreams of talking fairies and lives contentedly in the wooded suburbs of Boston; she grows up to be a successful animator of fairy-tale films. Or does she? She claims at moments to be a witch in the woods. Like her sisters, who appeared in Bernheimer’s first two novels (The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold and The Complete Tales of Merry Gold), Lucy has a secret, but she is unable to fasten onto anything but brightness. Novelist Donna Tartt writes, “Lucy’s particular brand of optimism, blind to its own shadow, is very American—she is innocence holding itself apart so fastidiously that it becomes its opposite.” This novel is a perfect end to the Gold family series, and the perfect introduction, for new readers, to Bernheimer’s enchanting body of work.
Author | : Mary Kempski |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2020-10-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781909492745 |
Conservators' prolonged proximity to paintings makes them ideally placed to notice anything unusual or surprising which might arise during examination or treatment. Ensuing investigations, often aided by technical analysis, include the recent increasingly widespread use of macro X-ray fluorescence (MA-XRF) scanning which has led to a raft of new discoveries. The papers in this volume, presented at the British Association of Paintings Conservator-Restorers' conference 'Tales of the Unexpected' in Conservation', look at the unexpected from a variety of periods and places of origin, and from a range of perspectives: practical, technical, historical and ethical.
Author | : Laura E. Williams |
Publisher | : Scholastic Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780439455855 |
Presents a collection of creepy, mind-bending stories including "Baby from Outer Space," "Marked for Death," and "The Telltale Croak."