Five-year old Matilda longs for her parents to be good and loving and understanding, but they are none of these things. They are perfectly horrid to her. Matilda invents a game of punishing them each time they treat her badly and she soon discovers she has supernatural powers.
What could go wrong when a wife pawns the mink coat that her lover gave her as a parting gift? What happens when a priceless piece of furniture is the subject of a deceitful bargain? Can a wronged woman 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 the territory of the unexpected and unsettling. Stylish, macabre and haunting, these tales will leave you with a delicious feeling of unease.
The stories are: 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.
Mr Willy Wonka, the most wondrous inventor in the world, opens his gates of his amazing chocolate factory to five lucky children. Gobstoppers, wriggle sweets and a river of melted chocolate delight await - Charlie needs just one Golden Ticket and these delicious treats could all be his.
Pamela et Arthur ont invité les Snape à venir passer le week-end chez eux pour jouer au bridge, mais ils redoutent de s'ennuyer avec ce jeune couple. Pamela a alors une idée qui devrait pimenter leur séjour...
Trois nouvelles délicieusement cruelles par l'un des maîtres de l'humour anglais.
This story is about "real witches" - who dress in ordinary clothes, look like ordinary women, but loathe all children. The seven-year-old hero and his grandmother are pitted against them at a witches convention, at which the witches are plotting to exterminate every child in England.
Offers an insightful glimpse into the early life of Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors. This title lets us discover his experiences of the English public school system, the idyllic paradise of summer holidays in Norway, the pleasures (and pains) of the sweetshop, and how it is that he avoided being a Boazer.
>Lire en anglais Collection dirigée par Henri Yvinec Cette collection s'adresse à tous ceux qui désirent découvrir ou redécouvrir le plaisir de lire dans leur langue d'origine les oeuvres des plus grands auteurs contemporains.
Notes en anglais en regard du texte, lexique bilingue en fin de volume dispensent d'un recours fastidieux au dictionnaire.
Roald Dahl The Hitch-hiker and Other Short Stories présentées par Chantal Yvinec Avec Roald Dahl, maître de l'humour noir, l'étrange n'est jamais loin, comme en témoignent les cinq nouvelles de ce recueil :
The Hitch-hiker Death of an Old Man Taste The Way up to Heaven Dip in the Pool www.roalddahl.com>Lire en anglais Collection dirigée par Henri Yvinec Cette collection s'adresse à tous ceux qui désirent découvrir ou redécouvrir le plaisir de lire dans leur langue d'origine les oeuvres des plus grands auteurs contemporains.
Notes en anglais en regard du texte, lexique bilingue en fin de volume dispensent d'un recours fastidieux au dictionnaire.
Roald Dahl The Hitch-hiker and Other Short Stories présentées par Chantal Yvinec Avec Roald Dahl, maître de l'humour noir, l'étrange n'est jamais loin, comme en témoignent les cinq nouvelles de ce recueil :
The Hitch-hiker Death of an Old Man Taste The Way up to Heaven Dip in the Pool www.roalddahl.com
A must-have on any bookshelf, Fantastic Mr Fox is a children's classic that never fails to get all young readers laughing out loud! And now with a phizzwhizzing new cover look, you definitely need to get your paws on Mr Fox's tale from Roald Dahl, the world's NUMBER ONE Storyteller! Boggis is an enormously fat chicken farmer who only eats boiled chickens smothered in fat. Bunce is a duck-and-goose farmer whose dinner gives him a beastly temper. Bean is a turkey-and-apple farmer who only drinks gallons of strong cider. Mr Fox is so clever that every evening he creeps down into the valley and helps himself to food from the farms. Now the farmers have hatched a plan to BANG-BANG-BANG shoot Mr Fox dead. But, just when they think Mr Fox can't possibly escape, he makes a fantastic plan of his own . . . Listen to FANTASTIC MR FOX and other Roald Dahl audiobooks read by some very famous voices, including Kate Winslet, David Walliams and Steven Fry - plus there are added squelchy sound-effects from Pinewood Studios! 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.
«And now, she told herself as she hurried back, all she was doing now, she was returning home to her husband and he was waiting for his supper; and if, when she entered the house, she happened to find anything unusual, or tragic, or terrible, then naturally it would be a shock and she'd become frantic with grief and horror. Mind you, she wasn't expecting to find anything. She was just going home with the vegetables.» Lamb to the Slaughter / The Way up to Heaven / The Landlady / William and Mary
Mr Wonka might be a genius with chocolate, but Charlie and his family don't trust his flying one bit. Especially when the thing he's flying is a glass elevator and it's zooming out of control. But life is never dull with Mr Wonka as he gets them into all kinds of terrible scrapes.
Lire en anglais Collection dirigée par Henri Yvinec Cette collection s'adresse à tous ceux qui désirent découvrir ou redécouvrir le plaisir de lire dans leur langue d'origine les oeuvres des plus grands auteurs contemporains.
Notes en anglais en regard du texte, lexique bilingue en fin de volume dispensent d'un recours fastidieux au dictionnaire.
Roald Dahl Someone Like You and Other Short Stories présentées par Chantal YvinecDes parents inquiets pour l'avenir de leur si chétif nouveau-né qu'ils ont prénommé... Adolf... Un ancien pilote de guerre et son ami quelque peu éméchés et maniant le non-sens avec une élégance toute britannique... Un sommelier anglais très à cheval sur les principes oenologiques... Des situations cocasses, riches en rebondissements, des personnages peu ordinaires... Tout le talent de Roald Dahl, un des plus grands humoristes anglais contemporains.
From the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG ! After James Henry Trotter's parents are tragically eaten by a rhinoceros, he goes to live with his two horrible aunts, Spiker and Sponge. Life there is no fun, until James accidentally drops some magic crystals by the old peach tree and strange things start to happen. The peach at the top of the tree begins to grow, and before long it's as big as a house. Inside, James meets a bunch of oversized friends--Grasshopper, Centipede, Ladybug, and more. With a snip of the stem, the peach starts rolling away, and the great adventure begins!
Contains stories such as: "The Umbrella Man"; "Dip in the Pool"; "The Butler"; "The Hitchhiker"; "Mr Botibol"; "My Lady Love", "My Dove"; "The Way Up to Heaven"; "Parson's Pleasure"; "The Sound Machine"; and "The Wish".
Deux maris décident pour une nuit d'échanger leurs femmes à leur insu. L'affaire est risquée... Les deux ont-ils suffisamment bien préparé leur coup, envisagé toutes les hypothèses, paré à toutes les éventualités ? Une jeune veuve se remet tout juste du terrible chagrin causé par la perte de son merveilleux mari. Alors qu'elle reprend peu à peu goût à la vie, sa route croise celle d'un ancien soupirant... Roald Dahl, avec un humour féroce, entraîne ses lecteurs de surprise en surprise dans les jeux troubles des adultes.
Mr. Hoppy is in love with his neighbor, Mrs. Silver; but she is in love with someone else-Alfie, her pet tortoise. With all her attention focused on Alfie, Mrs. Silver doesn't even know Mr. Hoppy is alive. And Mr. Hoppy is too shy to even ask Mrs. Silver over for tea. Then one day Mr. Hoppy comes up with a brilliant idea to get Mrs. Silver's attention. If Mr. Hoppy's plan works, Mrs. Silver will certainly fall in love with him. After all, everyone knows the way to a woman's heart is through her tortoise.
Mr and Mrs Twit are extremely nasty, so the Muggle-Wump monkeys and the Roly-Poly bird hatch an ingenious plan to give them just the ghastly surprise they deserve.
Danny's father had looked after him ever since his mother had died when he was just four months old. Danny loved his father, and his father loved him, and that's why Danny was so surprised to discover that his father had a secret that was to lead them both into a wild scheme.
«Dans La Princesse et le braconnier et dans La Princesse Mammalia, dans le premier plus encore peut-être que dans le second, Roald Dahl adopte de propos délibéré une langue plaisamment surannée, parfaitement en harmonie avec la période évoquée, celle des rois et des princesses, des nobles seigneurs, des gentilshommes, des courtisans, des dames de la cour... De ces jongleries verbales auxquelles il s'amuse, délicieuses et singulières, de ce brillant exercice de style (an exercise in diversity of style, écrit-il au sujet de Two Fables), l'auteur tire des effets irrésistibles, pleins d'une ironie féroce, fustigeant par le biais de ce monde purement imaginaire (parfois jusqu'au délire, proche du nonsense anglais) le pouvoir exercé par l'homme dans l'ordre politique et sexuel.» Henri Yvinec.
The Magic Finger is something I've been able to do my whole life. I can't tell you how I do it, because I don't even know myself. But it always happens when I get cross... and suddenly a sort of flash comes out of me, a quick flash, like something electric. It jumps out and touches the person who has made me cross...
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE BY STEVEN SPIELBERG, starring Oscar-winning actor Mark Rylance as THE BFG! 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. Sophie decides she must stop them once and for all. And the BFG is going to help her! With a new foreword by Lucy Dahl and exclusive fun activities inside, including: BFG Draw-along with Quentin Blake, BFG Quiz and much more! Listen to THE BFG and other Roald Dahl audiobooks read by some very famous voices, including Katel Winslet, David Walliams and Steven Fry - plus there are added squelchy sound effects from Pinewood Studios !
The second part of Roald Dahl's remarkable life story. With the outbreak of World War II, Dahl decides to sign up with the Royal Air Force and learn to fly. He recounts the exhilaration of flying, the camaraderie of his fellow pilots and the exotic beauty of his African experience.
In this collection of Roald Dahl's finest stories, we meet some quite ordinary people who behave in extraordinary ways. There is a man who is sure he can hear plants scream and the wife who discovers a perfect way to get rid of her husband...
