Kiss Kiss / Roald Dahl

By:

Dahl, Roald

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780241955345

Subject(s):

Short stories -- Fiction

Contents:

The landlady -- William and Mary -- The way up to heaven -- Parson's pleasure -- Mrs Bixby and the colonel's coat -- Royal jelly -- Georgy Porgy -- Genesis and catastrophe -- Edward the Conqueror -- Pig -- The champion of the world

Summary: What could go wrong when a wife pawns the mink coat that her lover gave her as a parting gift? What happens when the priceless piece of furniture is the subject of a deceitful bargain? Can a wronged women take revenge on her dead husband? In these dark, disturbing stories Roald Dahl explores the sinister side of human nature: the cunning, sly, selfish part of each of us that leads us into territory of unexpected and unsettling. Stylish, macabre and haunting, these takes will leave you with a delicious feeling of unease

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Books - Printed	PERPUSTAKAAN GUNASAMA HAB PENDIDIKAN TINGGI PAGOH Main Library General	PR6054 .A35 .D34 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		0000002418

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Originally published: New York: Knopf, 1959; London: Michael Joseph, 1960

What could go wrong when a wife pawns the mink coat that her lover gave her as a parting gift? What happens when the priceless piece of furniture is the subject of a deceitful bargain? Can a wronged women take revenge on her dead husband? In these dark, disturbing stories Roald Dahl explores the sinister side of human nature: the cunning, sly, selfish part of each of us that leads us into territory of unexpected and unsettling. Stylish, macabre and haunting, these takes will leave you with a delicious feeling of unease

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