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"Dahl wrote screenplays. Two, the James Bond film ""You Only Live Twice"" and ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"", were adaptations of novels by Ian Fleming. Dahl also began adapting his own novel ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"", which was completed and rewritten by David Seltzer after Dahl failed to meet deadlines, and produced as the film ""Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"" (1971). Dahl later disowned the film, saying he was ""disappointed"" because ""he thought it placed too much emphasis on Willy Wonka and not enough on Charlie"". He was also ""infuriated"" by the deviations in the plot devised by David"
"a Character); ""Politimesteren"" (Convicts No. 10 and No. 13); ""Den blaa Natviol"" (The Daughter of the Fortune Teller); ""Damernes Blad"" (The Ladies' Journal); ""Balletdanserinden"" (The Ballet Dancer); ""Jernbanens Datter"" (The Daughter of the Railway); ""Den naadige Frøken"" (Lady Mary's Love); ""En Lektion"" (Aviatikeren og Journalistens Hustru; The Aviator and the Journalist's Wife); ""Ekspeditricen"" (Ungdom og Letsind; In the Prime of Life); ""Desdemona; En Opfinders Skaebne"" (The Aeroplane Inventor); ""Fader og Søn"" (Onkel og Nevø; A Poisonous Love); ""Dødsdrømmen"" (A Dream of Death); ""Min første Monocle"" (His First Monocle); ""Fru Potifar"" (Den skaebnesvangre Løgn; A Fatal Lie); ""Kaerlighedens Styrke"" (The Power"
"is already shaken by her arrival in a girls' boarding school when she finds herself waking as another girl in the same bed, but decades earlier. Closer to reality, Jenny in ""No One Must Know"" (1962) by Barbara Sleigh is a newcomer in the street who faces a landlord's pet ban. She needs urgent help from nearby children to hide her cat and kittens. Roald Dahl rose to prominence with his children's fantasy novels, often inspired from experiences from his childhood, with often unexpected endings, and unsentimental, dark humour. Dahl was inspired to write ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" (1964),"
"of the newcomer. Again the newcomer shows no emotion but denies being Foxley and gives a different name and school. However, he gives a knowing look and rests his cane on his shoulder exactly as the viewer saw Foxley do earlier on. Galloping Foxley ""Galloping Foxley"" is a short story by Roald Dahl that first appeared in the November 1953 issue of ""Town & Country"". It was included in the 1953 collection ""Someone Like You"", and was later adapted into an episode of ""Tales of The Unexpected"". ""Galloping Foxley"", which Dahl claimed was based on a true story, is about"
"special for BBC One, first shown on 26 and 27 December 2016. It was nominated at the 90th Academy Awards for Best Animated Short. In 2014, supermarket chain Aldi pulled ""Revolting Rhymes"" from its shelves due complaints over the prince from Cinderella using the word ""slut"". Subsequent reprints replaced the offensive word with ""mutt"". Revolting Rhymes Revolting Rhymes is a collection of Roald Dahl poems published in 1982. A parody of traditional folk tales in verse, Dahl gives a re-interpretation of six well-known fairy tales, featuring surprise endings in place of the traditional happily-ever-after finishes. The poems are illustrated by"
"considered the world's best. Dahl first attended the Cathedral School, Llandaff. At the age of eight, he and four of his friends (one named Thwaites) were caned by the headmaster after putting a dead mouse in a jar of gobstoppers at the local sweet shop, which was owned by a ""mean and loathsome"" old woman called Mrs Pratchett. The five boys named their prank the ""Great Mouse Plot of 1924"". Gobstoppers were a favourite sweet among British schoolboys between the two World Wars, and Dahl would refer to them in his creation, Everlasting Gobstopper, which was featured in ""Charlie and"
"Austen Jane Sense and Sensibility ""Paragraphs"" ""Character"" Austen Jane Pride and Prejudice ""Paragraphs"" ""Character"" Von Kleist Heinrich The Marquise of O---- and Other Stories ""Sentences"" ""Character"" Stendhal The Red and the Black ""Paragraphs"" Balzac Honore de Cousin Bette Gogol Nikolai Dead Souls: A Novel ""Courage"" Dickens Charles Dombey and Son ""Narration"" Dickens Charles Bleak House Bronte Emily Wuthering Heights Turgenev Ivan Sergeevich First Love Eliot George Middlemarch ""Character"" Melville Herman Bartleby the Scriverner ""Paragraphs"" Melville Herman Moby Dick Melville Herman Benito Cereno Flaubert Gustave Madame Bovary ""Courage"" Flaubert Gustave A Sentimental Education ""Character"" Dostoyevsky Fyodor Crime and Punishment ""Narration"" ""Courage"""
"long, perfectly waved platinum-blond hair and her pink feather boa, looks like a pretty and inert doll—"" The article continues: ""And if the Stepford daughter on the cover is meant to remind us of Veruca Salt or Violet Beauregarde, she doesn't: those badly behaved squirts are bubbling over with rude life."" Moreover, writes Talbot, ""The Modern Classics cover has not a whiff of this validation of childish imagination; instead, it seems to imply a deviant adult audience."" Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. The story features"
"The Roald Dahl Treasury The Roald Dahl Treasury is an anthology of works of the children's author Roald Dahl. It was first published in the United Kingdom in 1997 by Puffin Books. Included amongst excerpts from all of Dahl's children's books and some previously unpublished material, are unexpurgated colour reprints of ""The Enormous Crocodile"", ""The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me"", ""Esio Trot"" and ""The Minpins"". The book includes a large volume of illustrations by Quentin Blake, with some specially commissioned for the project and some appearing for the first time in colour. A selection of guest illustrators including Raymond"
"refrigerator for a few hours."" Roald Dahl originally planned for a child called Marvin Prune to be included in ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"". Dahl submitted the excised chapter regarding Marvin Prune to ""The Horn Book Review"" in the early 1970s. Rather than publish the chapter, ""Horn Book"" responded with a critical essay by novelist Eleanor Cameron, who criticised Dahl's worth as a human being. Although it was believed that ""Horn Book"" never returned the chapter, Marvin Prune's chapter is actually available, but it has not yet been published. ""The Children's-Delight Room"" was reworked into ""Spotty Powder"". It is present"
"It is by far the oldest part of the school, and has had the addition of a refectory, library and information technology suites. The Jubilee Building, Sports Hall, Gloucester Building, Lodge and Memorial Hall are all more recent additions to the school as its age range has expanded. While Roald Dahl was a pupil at the school, he was involved in the ""Great Mouse Plot of 1924"", which he later described in his autobiography, ""Boy: Tales of Childhood"". This is the first of numerous occasions in which he outlines in great detail the perceived cruelty of corporal punishment in schools."
"Instead of the notes which Forester expected, Dahl sent a finished story for which he was paid $900. The work led to ""The Gremlins"", a serialised story in ""Cosmopolitan"" about a mischievous and fictional RAF creature, the gremlin; the work was published as Dahl's first novel in 1943. Dahl continued to write short stories, although these were all aimed at the adult market. They were sold to magazines and newspapers, and were later compiled into collections, the first of which was published in 1946. Dahl began to make up bedtime stories for the children, and these formed the basis of"
"Roald Dahl's Esio Trot Roald Dahl's Esio Trot is a British comedy television film that was first broadcast as part of BBC One's 2015 Christmas programming. It is an adaptation of Roald Dahl's children's novel ""Esio Trot"" in which a retired bachelor falls in love with his neighbour, a widow, who keeps a tortoise as a companion after the death of her husband. It was broadcast on 1 January 2015. It was seen by 7.86 million viewers, making it the ninth-most watched programme on BBC1 and across all UK TV channels for the week ending 4 January 2015. It was"
"Nunc Dimittis (short story) ""Nunc Dimittis"" is a short story by Roald Dahl. It was first published under the title ""The Devious Bachelor"" in ""Colliers"" in September 1953. The story is wholly told from the first-person perspective. Lionel Lampson, a wealthy middle-aged bachelor and art collector, learns from a gossipy widow, Gladys Ponsonby, that his younger girlfriend Janet de Pelagia thinks of him, among other things, as a ""crashing bore"". Lionel is scandalised and devises an elaborate revenge. He approaches a local artist, John Royden, and asks him to paint Janet's portrait with the stipulation that she does not know"
"in the UK ""whose actions during the reign of Elizabeth II have had a significant impact on lives in these islands and given the age its character"". Dahl's first published work, inspired by a meeting with C. S. Forester, was ""A Piece of Cake"", on 1 August 1942. The story, about his wartime adventures, was bought by ""The Saturday Evening Post"" for US$1,000 (a substantial sum in 1942) and published under the title ""Shot Down Over Libya"". His first children's book was ""The Gremlins"", published in 1943, about mischievous little creatures that were part of Royal Air Force folklore. The"
"to Dahl's previous novel ""Esio Trot"", noting that its title is ""tortoise"" backwards. The Vicar of Nibbleswicke The Vicar of Nibbleswicke is a children's story written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake. It was first published in London in 1991, after Dahl's death, by Century. The protagonist is a dyslexic vicar, and the book was written to benefit the Dyslexia Institute in London (now Dyslexia Action), with Dahl and Blake donating their rights. The Reverend Robert Lee, the new vicar of Nibbleswicke, is suffering from a rare and acutely embarrassing condition: Back-to-Front Dyslexia, a fictional type of dyslexia"
"Shakespeare's ""The Winter's Tale"". This play and Ben Jonson's play ""The Alchemist"" (1610) are typically cited as the first use of the word in publication (Nashe's ""Merrie Ballad"" was not published until 1899). John Wilmot, the 17th century English libertine, published his poem "" Signor Dildo"" in 1673. During the Parliamentary session of that year, objections were raised to the proposed marriage of James, Duke of York, brother of the King and heir to the throne, to Mary of Modena, an Italian Catholic princess. An address was presented to King Charles on 3 November, foreseeing the dangerous consequences of marriage"
"Galloping Foxley ""Galloping Foxley"" is a short story by Roald Dahl that first appeared in the November 1953 issue of ""Town & Country"". It was included in the 1953 collection ""Someone Like You"", and was later adapted into an episode of ""Tales of The Unexpected"". ""Galloping Foxley"", which Dahl claimed was based on a true story, is about a man named William Perkins, described as a ""contented commuter"" but who is in fact obsessed by routine. Every day he arrives at the station and catches the same train, taking the same seat in the carriage. One day his routine is"
"the same title in 1968, by Stina Hergin, younger sister of the children's author Astrid Lindgren. A German translation entitled ""Der Spuk im alten Schrank"" (The spook – or mischief – in the old cupboard), by Marie-Louise Dumont and illustrated by Sita Jucker, also appeared in 1968. Barbara Sleigh followed on with another children's fantasy novel two years later. ""The Snowball"" features a snowball that hatches into a ""snow child"". The given name ""Jessamy"" or ""Jessamie"", normally considered a variant of Jasmine and Jessamine, is found in the English language since 1633, but has always been rare. It showed up"
"Dahl about his experiences as a fighter pilot. This prompted Dahl to write his first story, ""A Piece of Cake"". Forester wrote many novels. He is best known for the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic Wars. He began the series with Hornblower fairly high in rank in the first novel, published in 1937. The last completed novel was published in 1962. With demand for more stories, Forester filled in Hornblower's life story, in effect. Hornblower's fictional feats were based on real events, but Forester wrote the body of the works carefully to avoid"
"James and the Giant Peach James and the Giant Peach is a popular children's novel written in 1961 by British author Roald Dahl. The original first edition published by Alfred Knopf featured illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. There have been reillustrated versions of it over the years, done by Michael Simeon for the first British edition, Emma Chichester Clark, Lane Smith and Quentin Blake. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1996. The plot centres on a young English orphan boy who enters a gigantic, magical peach, and has a wild and surreal cross-world adventure with"
"The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me is a 1985 children's book written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake. It is about a young boy, Billy, who meets a giraffe, pelican and monkey who work as window cleaners. Although the story is told in the first person by Billy, the word 'me' in the title refers to the monkey, who concludes every verse of his signature song with the phrase 'the giraffe and the pelly and me'. The story is told from the point of view of Billy, a young boy"
"Booktrust and Children's Laureate Michael Rosen inaugurated The Roald Dahl Funny Prize, an annual award to authors of humorous children's fiction. On 14 September 2009 (the day after what would have been Dahl's 93rd birthday) the first blue plaque in his honour was unveiled in Llandaff. Rather than commemorating his place of birth, however, the plaque was erected on the wall of the former sweet shop (and site of ""The Great Mouse Plot of 1924"") that features in the first part of his autobiography ""Boy"". It was unveiled by his widow Felicity and son Theo. The anniversary of Dahl's birthday"
"My Year My Year is a book by Roald Dahl and was published in 1993. It is based on a diary Dahl wrote during the final year of his life. In a month-by-month journey, he reflects on the past and present from many perspectives. Reminiscences of his childhood and adolescence are combined with tips on how to rid your lawn of moles or produce a first-class conker. All of this is woven into Dahl's observations of the changing seasons. It features watercolours by Quentin Blake. In a 1993 review, ""The Independent"" described it as ""like a nature diary by Andy"
"Warhol - what in other hands might be slight seems, in Dahl's hands, freakish and astonishing."" My Year My Year is a book by Roald Dahl and was published in 1993. It is based on a diary Dahl wrote during the final year of his life. In a month-by-month journey, he reflects on the past and present from many perspectives. Reminiscences of his childhood and adolescence are combined with tips on how to rid your lawn of moles or produce a first-class conker. All of this is woven into Dahl's observations of the changing seasons. It features watercolours by Quentin"
"Batman: Noël Batman: Noël is an original graphic novel written and illustrated by Lee Bermejo, who previously did the artwork for ""Joker"". It is based on Charles Dickens' classic novel ""A Christmas Carol"" and features characters from both Dickens and the Batman mythos. Like ""Joker"", the story is narrated by one of the Clown Prince's henchmen. During winter in Gotham City, a financially struggling man named Bob, who works as a delivery man for the Joker, finds a package full of money in a trash can, but almost immediately, Batman (referred to as Scrooge by the narrator), attacks him and"
"interactions among the students over the course of a single snow day, Snow Angel is a funny and eerie tale of teen angst, discovery, and the power of believing."" The play begins with all of the teenagers waiting by their radios, listening to the school closings. Just as they begin to celebrate when they hear their school is closed, their teacher has a special announcement for them: they have a journal assignment over the Snow Day. Frida Jensen, the outcast of the group, starts writing stories in her journal about mysterious encounters with a girl named Eva. After finding Frida's"
"Royal Jelly (short story) ""Royal Jelly"" is a short horror story by Roald Dahl. It was published in the February 1983 issue of ""Twilight Zone Magazine"". It was included in Dahl's books ""Tales of the Unexpected"", ""Kiss Kiss"", and published as a standalone volume in 2011. The story was adapted as an episode of the series ""Tales of the Unexpected"" in 1980, featuring Timothy West and Susan George as the couple. ""Royal Jelly"" is a story about the Taylor family: Albert, Mabel, and their newborn baby daughter. Mabel is frightened because the child won't eat and has been losing weight"
"The story chronicles the experiences of Rudolph, a youthful reindeer buck (male) who possesses an unusual luminous red nose. Mocked and excluded by his peers because of this trait, Rudolph proves himself one Christmas Eve with poor visibility due to inclement weather after Santa Claus catches sight of Rudolph's nose and asks Rudolph to lead his sleigh for the evening. Rudolph agrees and is finally favored by his fellow reindeer for his heroism and accomplishment. Rudolph made his first screen appearance in 1948, in a cartoon short produced by Max Fleischer for the Jam Handy Corporation that was more faithful"
"Raffles and Michael Cochrane as Bunny. The episode closely follows the plot of the original story, with some changes, including: The Ides of March (short story) ""The Ides of March"" (also published as ""In the Chains of Crime"") is a short story by E. W. Hornung, and the first appearance of the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, and his companion and biographer, Bunny Manders. The story was first published in June 1898 by ""Cassell's Magazine"". The story was also included in the collection ""The Amateur Cracksman"", published by Methuen & Co. Ltd in London, and Charles Scribner's Sons in New"
"first years at the royal stage: when he did the role of Rochester in ""Jane Eyre"", the papers spoke of the ""Swartzsjuka"" (the ""Swartz Illness"", referring to attraction) which had erupted in the audience. Among his parts were Richard II, Othello, Timon af Aten, Leontes in ""En vintersaga"" (A Winter's Tale) by Shakespeare, Sardanapalus by Byron, Fiesko, Egmont and Tartuffe, Caligula in ""Fäktaren från Ravenna"" (The fencer from Ravenna), Rochester in ""Jane Eyre"", Louis XII in the play by Delavigne and in ""Gringoire"", Maxime Odiot in ""En fattig ung mans äfventyr"" (The adventurse of a poor Youth), Daniel Hjort, Valdemar"
"fear, and then at Sir Basil, who for the first time has the traces of a smile in his eyes. Neck (short story) ""Neck"" is a short story by Roald Dahl. It first appeared in the 1953 collection ""Someone Like You"". Upon inheriting his father's newspaper and magazine empire, Sir Basil Turton suddenly finds himself the most sought-after bachelor in London society. Much to everyone's surprise, he marries a virtually unknown Continental European named Natalia. Sir Basil being little interested in anything other than his art collection, the new Lady Turton assumes control of the Turton Press, becoming in the"
"Awards. This was the second time Dahl was honoured, the first having been for his collection of short stories, ""Someone Like You"" (Best Short Story, 1954). The Landlady (short story) ""The Landlady"" is a short horror story by Roald Dahl. It initially appeared in ""The New Yorker"", as did other short stories that would later be reprinted in the 1960 anthology, ""Kiss Kiss"". 17-year-old Billy Weaver travels from London to Bath, by himself, on a work matter when he stops for the night at a quaint bed-and-breakfast. The landlady is a kind older woman who Billy comes to suspect is"