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  • Published: 10 August 2017
  • ISBN: 9781405933247
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352

Trickery

  • Roald Dahl




Roald Dahl's tales of trickery, deceit and cunning . . .

How underhand could you be to get what you want? In these ten tales of dark and twisted trickery Roald Dahl reveals that we are at our smartest and most cunning when we set out to deceive others - and sometimes even ourselves.

Here, among others, you'll read of the husband and wife and the parting gift which rocks their marriage, the light fingered hitch-hiker and the grateful motorist, and discover how sleeping pills can aid a little bit of serious poaching.

Roald Dahl reveals even more about the darker side of human nature in seven other centenary editions: Lust, Madness, Cruelty, Deception, War, Innocence and Fear.

  • Published: 10 August 2017
  • ISBN: 9781405933247
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352

Praise for Trickery

The titles are wonderfully unsettling guide to the beloved children's author's preoccupations

James Marriott, The Times

There's a whole world of Dahl still to discover in a newly collected book of his deliciously dark tales for adults . . . How underhand could you be to get what you want? In these ten tales of dark and twisted trickery Roald Dahl reveals that we are at our smartest and most cunning when we set out to deceive others - and, sometimes, even ourselves.

From the publisher's description

Trickery, is the most Dahlian of the lot . . . joyously anarchic stuff, the sort of adventure you hope adult life will be full of when you're a child

James Marriott, The Times
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