Tales of the Unexpected
Author: H.G. Wells
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-09-12
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 3368933108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReproduction of the original.
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Author: Roald Dahl
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 0140056068
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDahl is a master at introducing readers to a new sense of what lurks beneath the ordinary.
The Complete Tales of the Unexpected
Author: Roald Dahl
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780563528722
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Unexpected Tale of Bastien Bonlivre
Author: Clare Povey
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Published: 2021-09-02
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1801315175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe open door felt like an invitation, or a trap. Bastien wasn't sure which, but with no other choice, he stepped inside...and hoped he'd make it out again alive.Bastien Bonlivre is a boy with a big imagination, determined to finish the story his parents started, left to him in a red notebook.On the other side of Paris, bestselling author Olivier Odieux is struggling to complete his latest novel. Along with his villainous brothers, he is masterminding his greatest plot yet...one that will spread fear throughout the city and beyond.What connects these two stories is a dangerous secret, a hidden mystery and an unexpected race across Paris for the truth. Can Bastien and his friends Alice, Theo and Sami be brave enough to stop Olivier stealing the ending they deserve?A classic adventure story about friendship, hope, bravery and the power of imagination.
Completely Unexpected Tales
Author: Roald Dahl
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 521
ISBN-13: 0140098208
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTake 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.
Telling Tales of the Unexpected
Author: Robin Wooffitt
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780745010519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConversation analysis, discourse analysis and the study of rhetoric are combining to form a powerful interdisciplinary field of social scientific inquiry. Robin Wooffitt, in a systematic analysis of how people describe their paranormal encounters as factual experiences, introduces this field to the student and reader unfamiliar with its methods and theoretical constructs. Powerful cultural scepticism about the paranormal ensures that such experiences not only provide an implicit challenge to common-sense understanding of the world, but also undermine the pronouncements of the scientific orthodoxy. Wooffitt focuses on the ways in which accounts are organized in order to warrant the speaker's claim that the experiences actually happened and were not, say, the product of misperception, wish fulfilment or psychological aberration. He also examines the design of descriptive sequences through which speakers portray themselves as 'normal','rational' people; and contributes to the study of identity construction in discursive practices. Wooffitt has illustrated and simplified complex theoretical arguments in conversation and discourse analysis with relevant empirical materials, and he usefully clarifies points of convergence and divergence between these analytic traditions.
Tales of the Unexpected
Author: H. G. Wells
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-10-13
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 3387300778
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Tales of the Unexpected
Author: Mary Kempski
Publisher:
Published: 2020-10-07
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9781909492745
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConservators' prolonged proximity to paintings makes them ideally placed to notice anything unusual or surprising which might arise during examination or treatment. Ensuing investigations, often aided by technical analysis, include the recent increasingly widespread use of macro X-ray fluorescence (MA-XRF) scanning which has led to a raft of new discoveries. The papers in this volume, presented at the British Association of Paintings Conservator-Restorers' conference 'Tales of the Unexpected' in Conservation', look at the unexpected from a variety of periods and places of origin, and from a range of perspectives: practical, technical, historical and ethical.
Royal Jelly (A Roald Dahl Short Story)
Author: Roald Dahl
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2012-09-13
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 140591100X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRoyal Jelly is a brilliant gem of a short story from Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail. In Royal Jelly, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a sinister story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a husband and wife, unable to get their new baby to feed, hit upon a novel and disturbing solution . . . Royal Jelly is taken from the short story collection Kiss Kiss, which includes ten other devious and shocking stories, featuring the wife who pawns the mink coat from her lover with unexpected results; the priceless piece of furniture that is the subject of a deceitful bargain; a wronged woman taking revenge on her dead husband, and others. 'Unnerving bedtime stories, subtle, proficient, hair-raising and done to a turn.' (San Francisco Chronicle ) This story is also available as a Penguin digital audio download read by Oliver-award-winning actor Adrian Scarborough. Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.
Ghostly Tales of the Unexpected
Author: Simon Entwistle
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2014-09-03
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9781501058868
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAward winning tour guide Simon Entwistle presents a selection of his most famous Lancashire ghost stories along with the most popular of his modern stories in this spooky collection of legendary tales from haunted houses and spooky halls.
