As well as being famous the world over for his darkly humorous children's tales - all published by Puffin - Roald Dahl is also known for his compelling and twisted short s...
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Completely unexpected tales
Roald Dahl
Contents:
- Poison
- The Sound Machine
- Georgy Porgy
- Genesis and Catastrophe
- The Hitch-hiker
- The Umbrella Man
- Mr Botibol
- Vengeance Is Mine Inc.
- The B...
Mr. Joyboy, an embalmer, and Aimee Thanatogenos, crematorium cosmetician, find their romance complicated by the appearance of a young English poet.
It is 1939. Despite a law banning him from performing surgery, Ravic--a German doctor and refugee living in Paris--has been treating some of the citys most elite citizens ...
This book is worthy of being called a classic not only for the wonderful writing, but for the presentation: How to Tell a Story and Other Essays is a facsimile edition of ...
Edited and introduced by Linden Peach, Professor and Dean of Arts and Humanities, University of Wales, Cardiff.
This volume brings together Virginia Woolf’s last two ...
From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire,
and Ada, or Ardor, and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories. ...
This Library of America volume is the second of three volumes that contain the most authoritative versions of the English works of the brilliant Russian émigré, Vladimir N...
The brilliant new novel from the bestselling author of ‘Mr Golightly's Holiday’ and ‘Miss Garnet’s Angel’.
'There is no cure for being alive.' Thus speaks Dr David McBrid...
'Do you still love him?' Every second of every minute of every hour of every day...Alice is18 and about to start university while Joe's life is seemingly going n...
Plain Tales from the Hills, Rudyard Kipling's first collection of short stories, established his reputation and brought India to the British imagination. Including the sto...
A powerful new novel, heart-breaking but ultimately uplifting, from the author of the classic Twopence to Cross The Mersey.
Life in a Liverpool tenement block du...
Librairie D'Education A. Hatier, переплет: твердый, формат: уменьшенный.
A concise account of the life and ways of the English, with special reference to London. Supplyin...
Valley of Exile consists of three novellettes revolving around life in a remote Carpathian village. The characters are Jews - orthodox Jews of the old school, and their re...
Huge collection of fairy and folk tales with sixteen charming color illustrations by Hungarian painter Rona Emy.
"The Hill" gives an idealised view of life at Harrow and of the friendship between two boys.
2This novel of suspense and conflict set in the wild beauty of the Irish countryside. But while Maura believes she is going to Ireland to reclaim a piece of property, she ...
Meg Eliot is the wife of a successful barrister and with that comes a lovely home in Westminster, cocktail parties and a round of charity committees. She is the model wife...
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Parson's Pleasure, a brilliant gem of a short story from Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail. Read by the act...
ome day you’ll see me somewhere and I shan’t recognise you and you’ll say to yourself – ‘the old boy doesn’t remember me.’ But I do remember you – as you are now. That’s t...