Kiss, kiss
by Roald Dahl
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By pawning a fine mink coat, an unfaithful wife schemes to pull the wool over her husband's eyes. Tucked away in a rural cottage, a priceless piece of antique furniture is the subject of a deceptive bargain. In London, a young businessman thinks he has found a perfect room to let, despite the dottiness of its landlady. Sickly and frail, a beekeeper's baby daughter begins to thrive after her father employs his own special methods of feeding. And when a widow reads her late husband's final letter to her, she discovers he is still very much with her after death...
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macabre, diners, cannibalism, Weihnachtsbaum, Kinderszenen, reincarnation, cats, Austrian Germans, doctors, Midwives, English nursery rhymes, neurosis, celibacy, vicars, spinsters, sexual repression, seduction, abstinence, soft drinks, summer houses, involuntary commitment, psychiatrists, sadism, beekeepers, royal jelly, grubs, mink coats, pawnbrokers, stoles, Short horror stories, cyanide, short stories, cancer, brain, artificial hearts, Ringer's solution, phantom limbs, widows, Chippendale Commodes, Fiction, English Short stories, Fiction, short stories (single author), English literature, Fiction, generalPeople
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Küßchen, Küßchen....und noch ein Küßchen. Ungewöhnliche Geschichten.
2001-09, Rowohlt TB-V. Rnb.
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3499263335 9783499263330
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Contains:
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
Champion of the World
Contained in:
Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl: Volume I
Kiss, Kiss / Switch Bitch / My Uncle Oswald
Kiss, Kiss / Over to You / Switch Bitch / Someone Like You / Four Tales of the Unexpected / My Uncle Oswald
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