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.

Mary Malloney, enceinte et amoureuse, attend que son mari rentre du travail pour dîner. Malheureusement, à peine arrivé, c'est un divorce qu'il demande. Sonnée, la bonne épouse descend, attrape un gigot au congélo, et l'utilise pour fracasser le crâne de son époux. Maintenant, que faire ? Une chose est sûre, pour Mrs Malloney, pas question de finir en prison...

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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.
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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.

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.
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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.

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.

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...

When George's parents are away for the day, he's tempted to do something about his tyrannical grandmother. "Something" means going round the house collecting all kinds of horrible ingredients that will make up a magic potion to make her disappear. But instead of disappearing, she gets bigger.

>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.
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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
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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.

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".

The Enormous Crocodile is a horrid greedy grumptious brute who loves to guzzle up little boys and girls. But the other animals have had enough of his cunning tricks, so they scheme to get the better of this foul fiend, once and for all!


An unabridged recording read by Stephen Fry

«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. Lire la suite Fermer

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. Lire la suite Fermer

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.

Dahl is a master at introducing readers to a new sense of what lurks beneath the ordinary.

From the world's NUMBER ONE STORYTELLER , James and the Giant peach is a children's classic that has captured young reader's imaginations for generations. For a limited time only, this new 2018 edition of James and the Giant Peach comes with novelty fuzzy stickers, shaped like the giant insects who travel on the peach! James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags. Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that looks boiled and Aunt Spiker is bony and screeching. He's very lonely until one day something peculiar happens. At the end of the garden a peach starts to grow and GROW AND GROW. Inside that peach are seven very unusual insects - all waiting to take James on a magical adventure. But where will they go in their GIANT PEACH and what will happen to the horrible aunts if they stand in their way? There's only one way to find out . . . "A true genius . . . Roald Dahl is my hero" - David Walliams
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À Londres, il pleut souvent. Au beau milieu d'une averse, si un vieux monsieur d'allure distinguée vient offrir à une dame un parapluie, celle-ci, malgré sa méfiance initiale, l'acceptera avec joie. Et ce sera le début d'une histoire aussi stupéfiante qu'amusante. Dans les quatre nouvelles de ce recueil, Roald Dahl se révèle à la fois un moraliste impitoyable démasquant nos petits travers, un humoriste toujours raffiné et, surtout, un merveilleux écrivain.

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.
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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...

Witches really are a detestable breed. They disguise themselves as lovely ladies, when secretly they want to squish and squelch all the wretched children they despise. Luckily one boy and his grandmother know how to recognize these vile creatures, but can they get rid of them for good?

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.