Boy: Tales of Childhood

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Farrell, Barry (1971). Pat and Roald. Dell Publishing. Archived from the original on 17 April 2023 . Retrieved 23 September 2020. Kossoff, Julian (15 September 2011). "The dark side of Roald Dahl". The Jewish Chronicle. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021 . Retrieved 9 December 2020. Dahl, Roald (1999). "Min mor". I Roald Dahls kjøkken. Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag. p.65. ISBN 8205256136. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More is a 1977 short story collection by British author Roald Dahl. The seven stories are generally regarded as being aimed at a slightly older audience than many of Dahl's other children's novels. [1] a b Sherwood, Harriet (6 December 2020). "Roald Dahl's family apologises for his antisemitism". The Observer. Archived from the original on 7 December 2020 . Retrieved 8 December 2020.

a b c "Roald Dahl centenary: 'Tremendous things' promised for 2016". BBC News. BBC. 6 July 2015. Archived from the original on 23 December 2018 . Retrieved 14 October 2015. Clifton, Tony; Leroy, Catherine (1983). God Cried. Quartet. ISBN 978-0-7043-2375-9. Archived from the original on 17 April 2023 . Retrieved 23 September 2020. Dahl's charitable commitments in the fields of neurology, haematology and literacy during his life have been continued by his widow since his death, through Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity, formerly known as the Roald Dahl Foundation. [118] The charity provides care and support to seriously ill children and young people throughout the UK. [156] In June 2005, the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre in the author's home village Great Missenden was officially opened by Cherie Blair, wife of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, to celebrate the work of Roald Dahl and advance his work in literacy education. [157] Over 50,000 visitors from abroad, mainly from Australia, Japan, the United States and Germany, travel to the village museum every year. [158] Matilda the Musical has been shown in the West End (pictured) since November 2011, and on Broadway between 2013 and 2017 a b c d "Dahl's squishous words get their own dictionary". BBC. 28 May 2016. Archived from the original on 22 July 2019 . Retrieved 20 June 2018. Roald Dahl British author". Encyclopædia Britannica. Archived from the original on 16 April 2019 . Retrieved 2 March 2022.New faces on Sgt Pepper album cover for artist Peter Blake's 80th birthday". The Guardian. 5 October 2016. Archived from the original on 5 November 2016 . Retrieved 5 November 2016. a b Murphy, Simon (6 November 2018). "Royal Mint rejected Roald Dahl coin over antisemitic views". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 23 February 2023 . Retrieved 7 November 2018.

James Patterson remains UK libraries most borrowed author for 11th year". The Guardian. 27 July 2018. Archived from the original on 9 November 2020 . Retrieved 3 October 2020. Warren, Alan (1988). Roald Dahl. Starmont House. ISBN 978-1-55742-013-8. Archived from the original on 17 April 2023 . Retrieved 10 September 2017. a b c Johnson, Paul (3 September 1983). "An affront to decency". The Spectator. p.15. Archived from the original on 17 February 2020 . Retrieved 17 February 2020.Dahl finishes high school at seventeen and leaves Repton on his secret motorcycle, happy to leave the place behind. Rather than go to university, Dahl takes a sought-after job with Shell Oil. He undergoes two years of training in England before being sent on assignment abroad. He is displeased with the idea of going to Egypt, wanting jungles and exotic animals. His boss sends him to east Africa instead, and Dahl goes happily, learning Swahili while there. His career is put on hold, however, when WWII breaks out. Dahl joins the Royal Air Force and becomes a fighter pilot.

Larner, Andrew (2008). "Tales of the Unexpected: Roald Dahl's Neurological Contributions" (PDF). Advances in Clinical Neuroscience and Rehabilitation. Vol.8, no.1. ISSN 1473-9348. S2CID 163529827. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 March 2012 . Retrieved 7 November 2008. Bratberg, Øivind (2016). "Utvandrere". Roald Dahl: Grensesprengeren. Oslo: Dreyer. p.23. ISBN 9788282651806. According to Dahl's autobiography, Boy: Tales of Childhood, a friend named Michael was viciously caned by headmaster Geoffrey Fisher. Writing in that same book, Dahl reflected: "All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed literally to wound other boys, and sometimes quite severely... I couldn't get over it. I never have got over it." [40] Fisher was later appointed Archbishop of Canterbury, and he crowned Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. However, according to Dahl's biographer Jeremy Treglown, [41] the caning took place in May 1933, a year after Fisher had left Repton; the headmaster was in fact J. T. Christie, Fisher's successor as headmaster. Dahl said the incident caused him to "have doubts about religion and even about God". [42] He viewed the brutality of the caning as being the result of the headmaster's enmity towards children, an attitude Dahl would later attribute to the Grand High Witch in The Witches who exclaims that "children are rrreee-volting!". [37] Roy, Nilanjana (24 February 2023). "The case against rewriting Roald Dahl". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 2 March 2023 . Retrieved 25 February 2023.

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He eventually joined the war as a squadron pilot in the Royal Air Force, flying the Tiger Moth, Gloster Gladiator, and Hawker Hurricane. He was among the last Allied pilots to withdraw from Greece during the German invasion, taking part in the air for the Battle of Athens on 20 April 1941. In one of his accounts, he described a crash in the Western Desert, which fractured his skull and brought him several other problems such as temporarily being blinded during his days in Greece. [3] After the country fell to the Nazis, he went to the Middle East to fight Vichy French pilots after staying for a brief time in Alexandria, Egypt. Roald Dahl (derivative work) and Quentin Blake (2005). Roald Dahl's Incredible Chocolate Box. Penguin Books, Limited. ISBN 978-0-14-131959-9. Boy: Tales of Childhood (1984) is an autobiography written by British writer Roald Dahl. [1] This book describes his life from early childhood until leaving school, focusing on living conditions in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s, the public school system at the time, and how his childhood experiences led him to writing children's books as a career. It concludes with his first job, working for Royal Dutch Shell. His life story continues in the book Going Solo. Caswell, Mark. "Freddie Mercury unveiled as Norwegian's latest tail fin hero". Business Traveller.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2023 . Retrieved 14 September 2018. Roald Dahl plaque for 'Weston-super-Mud' ". BBC News. 21 March 2018. Archived from the original on 8 March 2021 . Retrieved 7 March 2019.