My nose didn't seem to be there."
While it would take Dahl six months to recover and he would live with the recurrent pain of his injuries for the rest of his life, Dahl's crash landing set him on a course that led him to his career as a writer. It was not long before Dahl earned the title "our Supreme Master of Wickedness" from the New Republic's J. D. O'Hara for his adult fiction. "Dahl's trademark was his mercilessness," wrote Frederic Raphael in Times Literary Supplement.
Despite his early success as a writer for adults, Dahl is perhaps best known for a book he wrote for children, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. What Dahl "does in Charlie and in his other children's stories is to home unerringly in on the very nub of childish delight, with brazen and glorious disregard for what is likely to furrow the adult brow," commented Gerald Haigh in Times Educational Supplement. The publication and popularity of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory evoked criticism from experts in children's literature who thought that the violence, insensitivity, or supposed racism in the text was offensive or inappropriate for children. "It is difficult to avoid the feeling that Dahl ...
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