{"product_id":"roald-dahl-tales-of-the-unexpected","title":"Roald Dahl: Tales of the Unexpected","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this collection of stories, Dahl tantalizes, amuses, and sometimes terrifies readers into a sense of what lurks beneath the ordinary. Included in this collection are such notorious gems of the bizarre as “The Second Machine,” “Lamb to the Slaughter,” “Neck,” and “The Landlady.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOther stories explore: A wine connoisseur with an infallible palate and a sinister taste in wagers. A decrepit old man with a masterpiece tattooed on his back. A voracious adventuress, a gentle cuckold, and a garden sculpture that becomes an instrument of sadistic vengeance. Social climbers who climb a bit too quickly. Philanderers whose deceptions are a trifle too ornate. Impeccable servants whose bland masks slip for one vertiginous instant.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith the inventive power of a Thomas Edison and the imagination of a Lewis Carroll…Roald Dahl is a wizard of comedy and the grotesque, an artist with a marvelously topsy-turvy sense of the ridiculous in life.” –Cleveland Plain Dealer\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Dahl, Roald","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36027261026471,"sku":"","price":7.39,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/products\/ScreenShot2021-01-26at2.56.41PM.png?v=1611687415","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/roald-dahl-tales-of-the-unexpected","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}