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Tales of Childhood
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Tells the story of unadulterated childhood - sad and funny, macabre and delightful - that inspired Britain's favourite storyteller and also speaks of an age which vanished with the coming of the Second World War.
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A beautiful new jacket treatment, part of Penguin's reissue programme of Dahl's adult titles.
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. This is not an autobiography. I would never write a history of myself. On the other hand, throughout my young days at school and just afterwards a number of things happened to me that I have never forgotten . . .
Boy is a funny, insightful and at times grotesque glimpse into the early life of Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors. We 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.
This is the unadulterated childhood - sad and funny, macabre and delightful - that inspired Britain's favourite storyteller and also speaks of an age which vanished with the coming of the Second World War.
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Boy by Roald Dahl is praised for its vivid and enchanting recollections of his childhood, weaving together moments of magic and hardship. The writing captures both the whimsical and occasionally dark aspects of his experiences, presenting a narrative that is as engaging and lively as his fiction.
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ISBN: 9780241955307
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 27 October 2011
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 13.0mm
Width: 131.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 153g
Pages: 208
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About the Author
Sitting in a hut at the bottom of his garden, surrounded by odd bits and pieces such as a suitcase (used as a footrest), his own hipbone (which he'd had replaced) and a heavy ball of metal foil (made from years' worth of chocolate wrappers), Roald Dahl wrote some of the world's best-loved stories including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Twits, The Witches, The BFG, Fantastic Mr Fox, James and the Giant Peach and lots more.
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