Voici quatre nouvelles où l'on retrouve avec bonheur l'inimitable humour et les dons de conteur de Roald Dahl. "L'homme au parapluie", "Monsieur Botibol", "A moi la vengeance, SARL", et "Le maître d'hôtel". Dans la première nouvelle, un homme propose un parapluie très élégant à une femme en échange d'une livre, car il a oublié son portefeuille, et veut se payer un taxi pour rentrer chez lui.Dans la deuxième, un homme "invente" de merveilleuses symphonies.Dans la troisième, deux hommes imaginent de gagner de l'argent en vengeant les gens offensés par un journaliste.Dans la dernière, un homme apprend à découvrir et à apprécier le bon vin grâce à son maître d'hôtel.

L'homme au parapluie: et autres nouvelles

Sophie ne rêve pas, cette nuit-là, quand elle aperçoit de la fenêtre de l'orphelinat une silhouette immense vêtue d'une longue cape noire et munie d'une curieuse trompette. Une main énorme s'approche et la saisit. Et Sophie est emmenée au pays des géants. Terrifiée, elle se demande de quelle façon elle va être dévorée. Mais la petite fille est tombée entre les mains d'un géant peu ordinaire : c'est le B.G.G., le Bon Gros Géant, qui se nourrit de légumes, et souffle des rêves dans les chambres des enfants...

Le Bon Gros Géant

Sophie ne rêve pas, cette nuit-là, quand elle est tirée de son lit par un géant! Heureusement, c'est le Bon Gros Géant, le BGG, qui se nourrit de schnockombres et boit de la frambouille. Mais il existe d'autres géants au pays des géants, des brutes de quinze mètres de haut qui ne raffolent que d'une chose : les hommes de terre. Sophie et son ami le BGG pourront-ils les arrêter? Espérons-le, sinon vous pourriez bien être le prochain à vous faire gober par un affreux géant. 

Les aventures de Sophie et du Bon Gros Géant sont racontées avec délice et espièglerie par un célèbre duo de comédiens : Christine Delaroche et Daniel Prévost. Une interprétation pleine d'énergie et de drôlerie!

The Enormous Crocodile is incredibly hungry-and incredibly greedy. His favorite meal is a plump, juicy little child, and he intends to gobble up as many of them as he can! But when the other animals in the jungle join together to put an end to his nasty schemes, the Enormous Crocodile learns a lesson he won't soon forget. Dahl's wicked humor is as delightful as ever in this new, larger edition of a hilarious favorite.  Illustrated by Quentin Blake.

L'énorme crocodile

Matilda is a little girl who is far too good to be true. At age five-and-a-half she's knocking off double-digit multiplication problems and blitz-reading Dickens. Even more remarkably, her classmates love her even though she's a super-nerd and the teacher's pet. But everything is not perfect in Matilda's world. For starters she has two of the most idiotic, self-centered parents who ever lived. Then there's the large, busty nightmare of a school principal, Mrs. ("The") Trunchbull, a former hammer-throwing champion who flings children at will and is approximately as sympathetic as a bulldozer. Fortunately for Matilda, she has the inner resources to deal with such annoyances: astonishing intelligence, saintly patience, and an innate predilection for revenge.She warms up with some practical jokes aimed at her hapless parents, but the true test comes when she rallies in defense of her teacher, the sweet Miss Honey, against the diabolical Trunchbull. There is never any doubt that Matilda will carry the day. Even so, this wonderful story is far from predictable. Roald Dahl, while keeping the plot moving imaginatively, also has an unerring ear for emotional truth. The reader cares about Matilda because in addition to all her other gifts, she has real feelings.

Matilda

In Going Solo, the world's favourite storyteller, Roald Dahl, tells of life as a fighter pilot in Africa.

'They   did not think for one moment that they would find anything but a   burnt-out fuselage and a charred skeleton, and they were astounded when   they came upon my still-breathing body lying in the sand nearby.' In   1938 Roald Dahl was fresh out of school and bound for his first job in   Africa, hoping to find adventure far from home. However, he got far  more  excitement than he bargained for when the outbreak of the Second  World  War led him to join the RAF. His account of his experiences in  Africa,  crashing a plane in the Western Desert, rescue and recovery  from his  horrific injuries in Alexandria, flying a Hurricane as Greece  fell to  the Germans, and many other daring deeds, recreates a world as  bizarre  and unnerving as any he wrote about in his fiction.
 
'Very  nearly  as grotesque as his fiction. The same compulsive blend of  wide-eyed  innocence and fascination with danger and horror' Evening Standard 'A non-stop demonstration of expert raconteurship' The New York Times Book Review 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.

Going solo

THE WITCHES by Roald Dahl is the story of a detestable breed of Witches.    BEWARE.   Real witches dress in ordinary clothes and look like ordinary women. But they are not ordinary. They are always plotting and scheming with murderous, bloodthirsty thoughts - and they hate children. The  Grand High Witch  hates children most of all and plans to make every single one of YOU disappear. Only one boy and his grandmother can stop her, but if their plan fails the Grand High Witch will frizzle them like fritters, and then what . . . ?  Now you can listen to THE WITCHES and other Roald Dahl audiobooks read by some very famous voices, including Kate Winslet, David Walliams and Steven Fry - plus there are added squelchy soundeffects from Pinewood Studios!   And look out for new Roald Dahl apps in the App store and Google Play- including the disgusting TWIT OR MISS! and HOUSE OF TWITS inspired by the revolting Twits.

The witches

Blanche-Neige inculpée ! Les dessous de l'affaire Cendrillon ! Le scandale des contes de fées ! Le Prince charmant démasqué ! Voici Le Petit Chaperon rouge, Les Trois Petits Cochons et autres contes classiques revus et corrigés avec humour par Roald Dahl et Quentin Blake. Reconnaîtrez-vous ces contes étonnants et épouvantablement comiques ?

L'homme au parapluie: et autres nouvelles

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