Title: Completely Unexpected Tales [25 stories]
Description: Contains:
[Tales of the Unexpected](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL45877W)
[More Tales of the Unexpected](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL45849W)
Subjects: Literature, Fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author), cancer, brain, artificial hearts, Ringer's solution, phantom limbs, widows, Chippendale Commodes, beekeepers, royal jelly, grubs, World War I, World War II, begging, Weihnachtsbaum, Kinderszenen, reincarnation, cats, prefects, Short horror story, cyanide, Cadillacs, short story, mink coats, pawnbrokers, stoles, caviar, cruise ships, betting pools, caregivers, dementia, English language, Short stories, Bungarus, Austrian Germans, doctors, Midwives, English nursery rhymes, neurosis, celibacy, vicars, spinsters, sexual repression, seduction, cannibalism, abstinence, soft drinks, summer houses, involuntary commitment, psychiatrists, sadism, Hitchhiking, Pickpockets
Places: New York, Paris, Chelsea, London, Buckinghamshire, Céret, Le Havre, Bristol Hotel, Cannes, Buenos Aires, Eton College, Cambridge, Jamaica, New York City, Baltimore, Europe, Fleet Street
People: Eugene Foster, Mrs Foster, William Pearl, Mary Pearl, Landy, Cyril Boggis, Claud, Bert, Rummins, Albert Taylor, Mabel Taylor, Drioli, Chaim Soutine, Josie, narrator, Edward, Louisa, Antonio Vivaldi, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahm, Epictetus, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore Roosevelt, Julius Caesar, Frédéric Chopin, William Perkins, Bruce Foxley, Billy Weaver, Christopher Mulholland, Gregory W. Temple, Carlos, Mrs. Bixby, Colonel, Miss Pulteney, Basil Turton, Natalia Turton, Major Haddock, Jelks, Henry Moore, Lionel Lampson, Gladys Ponsonby, Janet de Pelagia, John Royden, William Botibol, Harry Pope, Timber Woods, Dr. Ganderbai, Klausner, Klara Hitler, Otto Hitler, Gustav Hitler, Ida Hitler, Alois Hitler, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), George, Lady Birdwell, Miss Roach, hitchhiker
Time periods: Autumn 1913