'These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: you are not alone'

Matilda is the story of a brilliant and sensitive girl who refuses to submit to the cruelty of the adult world, and instead channels her anger and sense of isolation into heroic action. In his depiction of the monstrous Wormwoods and psychotic Miss Trunchbull, Dahl created some of his most memorable villains; and in Matilda, he created his greatest and best-loved heroine - an enduring emblem of resistance in the face of tyranny for more than thirty years.

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<b>Roald Dahl's greatest heroine, now in Penguin Classics for the first time.</b>

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780241417119
Publisert
2021
Utgiver
Vendor
Penguin Classics
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
144

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Biographical note

Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in 1916 in Wales of Norwegian parents. He was educated in England before starting work for the Shell Oil Company in Africa, and began writing after a 'monumental bash on the head' sustained as an RAF fighter pilot during the Second World War. In addition to the classics Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate and The BFG, he wrote volumes of memoir and dark short stories for adults. He worked in a tiny hut in the apple orchard of his house in Buckinghamshire until his death in 1990 at the age of 74.