Estos relatos conjugan una gran sensibilidad narrativa con una portentosa imaginación, un sentido del humor típicamente británico y una ternura que llega a emocionar.
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.
Aside from being thoroughly debauched, strikingly attractive and astonishingly wealthy, Uncle Oswald was the greatest bounder, bon viviant and fornicator of all time. In this installment 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.
The Visitor and Bitch are extracts from the diaries of the notorious Oswald Hendryks Cornelius, hedonist beyond compare. Uncle Oswalds exploits are as extraordinary as they are scandalous, as these two tales of sex and intrigue confirm in vivid and hilarious detail. The delicious thrill of sexual expectation - and its sometimes maddening effects - are explored in The Great Switcheroo and The Last Act; here the power of desire is a double-edged sword, both pleasurable and potentially catastrophic. Lust, triumph, the galling deflation of defeat: Roald Dahl captures it all in these superbly taut black comedies of human weakness and unexpected reversal.
The sweet scents of rural life infuse this beautifully crafted collection of Roald Dahls country stories, but there is always something unexpected lurking in the undergrowth ... Whether it is taking a troublesome cow to be mated with a prime bull; dealing with a rat-infested hayrick; learning the ways and means of maggot farming; or describing the fine art of poaching pheasants using nothing but raisins and sleeping pills, Roald Dahl brings his stories of everyday country folk and their strange passions wonderfully to life. Lacing each tale with dollops of humour and adding a sprinkling of the sinister, Dahl ensures that this collection is brimful of the sweet mysteries of life.
Dans la vallée vivent trois riches fermiers, éleveurs de succulentes volailles. Boggis, Bunce, Bean, le gros, le petit, le maigre, laids comme des poux, sont mesquins, avares et méchants et chacun dans le voisinage les craint - tout particulierement les enfants et les animaux.Or, au-dessus de la vallee, dans le bois, une famille de renards a etabli son terrier. Maitre Renard, Dame Renard et leurs quatre renardeaux affames et malins ont trouve un astucieux moyen de se ravitailler : Maitre Renard va tranquillement se servir dans les poulaillers des trois comperes. Dindes dodues et tendres poulets figurent ainsi tous les soirs au menu. Mais les trois grigous meditent une terrible vengeance...Feroce, savoureux et drole : du meilleur Roald Dahl !
Roald Dahl presenta en aquest volum les catorze histories de terror que ell considera millors. En el conte d?E. F. Benson trobem el terror en el metro de Londres; en el de Richard Middleton, a l?autopista de Brighton; en el noruec Jonas Lie, en una salvatge tempesta marina; i... mentre que l?espectre de Sheridan Le Fanu no pot parar de picar a la finestra, ja que no es mes que una ma fantasma.
Les enfants sont répugnants ! Ils puent ! Ils empestent ! Ils sentent le caca de chien ! Rien que d'y penser j'ai envie de vomir ! Il faut les écrabouiller...
La fantàstica continuació del gran clàssic de Roald Dahl Charlie i la fàbrica de xocolata. En Charlie, que ja es amo de la fabulosa fàbrica de xocolata, se'n va de viatge amb la seva família i el s
