- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Penguin (25 Mar 2004)
- Language Unknown
- ISBN-10: 0140098208
- ISBN-13: 978-0140098204
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 24,811 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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.
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From the publication of James and the Giant Peach and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in the 1960s to his death in 1990, Roald Dahl became the most successful children’s author in the world. Nearly twenty years later, a fresh generation of children seek out his work with instinctive fanaticism. His creations endure - through Hollywood movies, theatre adaptations and musical works, but still most potently of all through the pure magic of his writing upon the page.
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33 of 34 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Roald Dahl is, or should be, well known for his superb and highly imaginative stories for children, but he also had a remarkable and very different talent for adult literature. He always displays an acid, witty and even macabre sense of humour, insisting on human miseries: greed, deceit and revenge are mixed up from apparently innocent attitudes to obtain surprising and sometimes exhilarating results. If you read all the tales in a row, as I did, you may be a little exhausted at the end, but you can always switch to something else and come back later. There is real good material in here, like "Parson's pleasure", "William and Mary", "The hitchhiker", "Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's coat" or "Genesis and catastrophe". Very recommended!
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have been an admirer of Roald Dahl since I was a child, indulging in all his classics (Charlie and the Chocolate factory, The Witches, Matilda and so many more) and possibly the thing that attracted me to his books were his imagination, his stories which even without the label of "Unexpected" took us to unexpected places and stunned us. My copy of this book is worn and bent from reading and re-reading the amazing stories. His stories are dark and intriguing, captivating and magical, and his imagination and creativity and ability to stun are present as always. It is a book you cannot read in one go, but you can not drop it once you've started either! "Lamb to the slaughter", "The landlady", "Mrs. Bixby and the colonel's coat", "Man from the south"...all amazing. You will not regret it! :)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
These are absolute classics and I'd thoroughly recommend anyone who loved Roald Dahl as a child finding out more about his darker side. I'd suggest you stick to the paperback version though, which is over £4 cheaper than the kindle version!!
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Excellent Kindle book marred by the most atrocious typesetting
If you like Roald Dahl, you'll know what to er... expect. This collection brings together many of his best stories, and in describing them, there is nothing that I can add to the... Read more
Published 2 months ago by MarkP
Funny and Scary
I grew up loving these stories, captivated by Dahl's wit and sense of the macabre. I just found a set of stories from an author Kavan Stafford called Ward 62 which entertained,... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Gm Cameron
RIP OFF!!!!
What stories there are, are fantastic. I had this book many years ago, but there was easily twice as many short stories!, wheres uncle oswald?, the RAF stories. so many missing. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Stokes237
Hardly completely unexpected, were they.
Loved Roald Dahl as a child.
Quite a lot of money for all those tales of the unexpected to come back rather less unexpected than I had hoped.
Quite a lot of money for all those tales of the unexpected to come back rather less unexpected than I had hoped.
Published 12 months ago by DC
Amazing
One of my favourite books of all times. You will never guess the final twists.
I have bought it for most of my friends, they all loved it too!
I have bought it for most of my friends, they all loved it too!
Published 17 months ago by Laura
Dahl is not just for the kids.
Hands down one of THE most delightful books I've read in a while. It's not often I find myself itching to flip forward in the book because I simply can't take the suspense; with... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Rebecca
Tales of the unexpected book
Great fun to read. Mum and duaghter enjoy it and talk bout it. Great fun!
Published 19 months ago by Mrs. J. D. Allen
Clever stories that are a delight to read
I found these stories the perfect way to unwind, easy reading with the benefit an interesting twist at the end of each story
Published on 16 April 2009 by T. Clark
My No.1 Book.
I could not have written it better myself. Dahl at his best. Just as the title says, unexpected tales. You can`t go wrong with Dahl.
Published on 5 Jun 2000
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