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The Real Roald Dahl (Hardcover)
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The Real Roald Dahl (Hardcover)
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Although his hilariously entertaining stories have touched the
hearts of generations of children, there was much more to beloved
author Roald Dahl than met the eye. His fascinating life began in
Norway in 1916, and he became a highly rebellious teenager who
delighted in defying authority before joining the RAF as a fighter
pilot. But after his plane crashed in the African desert he was
left with agonising injuries and unable to fly. He was dispatched
to New York where, as a dashing young air attache, he enraptured
societies greatest beauties and became friends with President
Roosevelt. Roald soon found himself entangled with a highly complex
network of British undercover operations. Eventually he grew tired
of the secrecy of spying and retreated to the English countryside.
He married twice and had five children, but his life was also
affected by serious illness, tragedy and loss. He wrote a number of
stories for adults, many of which were televised as the hugely
popular Tales of the Unexpected, but it was as a children's author
that he found greatest fame and satisfaction, saying "I have a
passion for teaching kids to become readers...Books shouldn't be
daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful." From 1945
until his death in 1990, he lived in Buckinghamshire, where he
wrote his most celebrated children's books including Matilda,
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Fantastic Mr Fox.
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