Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected - Softcover

Dahl, Roald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394740815 ISBN 13: 9780394740812

Publisher: Vintage, 1979

Synopsis

This title covers stories including: "Taste", "Lamb to Slaughter", "Man from the South", "Dip in the Pool", "Skin", "Neck", "Nunc Dimittis", "The Landlady", "William and Mary", "The Way up to Heaven", "Parsons Pleasures", "Mrs Bixby and the Colonel Coat", "Royal Jelly", "Edward the Conqueror", and "Galloping Foxley".

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Dahl is a master at introducing readers to a new sense of what lurks beneath the ordinary.

About the Author:

Roald Dahl (1916-1990) was born in Llandaff, South Wales, and went to Repton School in England. His parents were Norwegian, so holidays were spent in Norway. As he explains in Boy, he turned down the idea of university in favor of a job that would take him to 'a wonderful faraway place'. In 1933 he joined the Shell Company, which sent him to Mombasa in East Africa. When World War II began in 1939 he became a fighter pilot and in 1942 was made assistant air attaché in Washington, where he started to write short stories. His first major success as a writer for children was in 1964. Thereafter his children's books brought him increasing popularity, and when he died children mourned the world over, particularly in Britain where he had lived for many years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0394740815
• ISBN 13: 9780394740812
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 471