L'oncle Oswald, personnage haut en couleur et bon vivant notoire, raconte dans ses Mémoires comment il a fait fortune. Dès l'âge de dix-sept ans, il se sert de ses connaissances en chimie et de son goût pour la bagatelle pour inventer une pilule aux propriétés stupéfiantes. Mais ce n'est qu'un début. Les aventures, tantôt scabreuses, tantôt délirantes, se succèdent à un rythme effréné. Une nouvelle fois, Roald Dahl donne libre cours à son humour dévastateur.

Mon oncle Oswald

The Complete Short Stories of Roald Dahl in the first of two unsettling and sinister volumes.   'They are brutal, these stories, and yet you finish reading each one  with a smile, or maybe even a hollow laugh, certainly a shiver of  gratification, because the conclusion always seems so right'  Charlie  Higson, from his introduction.  Roald Dahl is one of the most  popular writers of the modern age, effortlessly writing for children and  adults alike. In this, the first of two volumes chronologically  collecting all his published adult short stories, we see how Dahl began  by using his experiences in the war to write fiction but quickly turned  to his powerful and dark imagination to pen some of the most unsettling  and disquieting tales ever written.  In 27 stories, written  between 1944 and 1953, we encounter such classic tales as 'Man from the  South', featuring a wager with appalling consequences; 'Lamb to the  Slaughter', in which a wife murders her husband yet has a novel idea for  throwing the police off the scent; and in 'The Sound Machine', the  horrific truth about plants is revealed.  Enter the sinister, twisted world of Roald Dahl: whether you're young or old, you'll never want to leave.  'Roald Dahl is one of the few writers I know whose work can accurately be described as addictive'   Irish Times   'The great magician'   Spectator   Look out for Volume Two, introduced by Anthony Horowitz   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.

Complete short stories, the

Shh! Listen! What is that I hearGallumphing softly up the stair?This beautiful edition of Dirty Beasts, part of The Roald Dahl Classic Collection, features official archive material from the Roald Dahl Museum and is perfect for Dahl fans old and new. So, enter a world where invention and mischief can be found on every page and where magic might be at the very tips of your fingers .

Dirty Beasts

L'auteur de Bizarre! Bizarre! et de Kiss Kiss confirme ici qu'il est un des maîtres de l'humour et du baroque. Ses quatre récits sont pétris de sarcasmes et de fantaisie, délibérément invraisemblables, menés à un rythme endiablé, bâtis sur des intrigues coupées de rebondissements et de coups de théâtre.Leur thème commun est une réflexion sur la chair, l'instinct sexuel et le plaisir, qui les transforme en petites fables cruelles, empreintes d'une morale qui raille la fatuité de l'éternel masculin.

La grande entourloupe

Le Grand Livre de Roald Dahl vous invite a un voyage extraordinaire. Mille et une histoires, des contes, des fables mais aussi des poèmes, des proverbes, des lettres et des souvenirs inédits... un festival Roald Dahl! Si vous connaissez déjà ses personnages et ses récits les plus célèbres, vous les retrouverez avec bonheur, superbement illustrés en couleurs, accompagnés d'une multitude de surprises et de découvertes. Si vous ne les connaissez pas encore, alors ouvrez ce livre comme le coffre d'un trésor, qui vous révélera l'un des plus grands auteurs d'aujourd'hui.

Le grand livre de Roald Dahl

Superb Stories, Daring Deeds, Fantastic AdventuresHere is the action-packed sequel to Boy, a tale of Dahl's exploits as a World War II pilot. Told with the same irresistible appeal that has made Roald Dahl one the world's best-loved writers, Going Solo brings you directly into the action and into the mind of this fascinating man.From book cover:The second part of Roald Dahl's extraordinary life story. Here he is grown up: first in Africa, then learning to be a wartime fighter pilot. It is a story that is funny, frightening and full of fantasy - as you would expect.The first part of Roald Dahl's life story: Boy, is also available in the New Windmill Series.Cover illustration by Quentin Blake

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Phizzwhizzing new cover look and branding for the World's NUMBER ONE Storyteller!  On a dark, silvery moonlit night, Sophie is snatched from her bed by a giant. Luckily it is the Big Friendly Giant, the BFG, who  only  eats snozzcumbers and glugs frobscottle.  But there are other giants in Giant Country.  Fifty foot brutes who gallop far and wide every night to find human beans to eat. Can Sophie and her friend the BFG stop them? Let's hope so - otherwise the next child a gruesome giant guzzles could be YOU.  Also 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 bfg

Danny vit seul avec son père dans une vieille roulotte de gitan en pleine campagne, avec un petit garage pour réparer les voitures et une pompe à essence. L'homme et l'enfant sont liés par une grande tendresse, par une commune passion pour la mécanique, par les jeux partagés, et bientôt par leur complicité dans le braconnage des faisans.

Danny, champion du monde

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.

Mon oncle Oswald

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