Roald Dahl's children's novel The Twits, illustrated by Dahl's longtime collaborative partner Quentin Blake, features a dastardly married couple named Mr. and Mrs. Twit. As The Twits continue to treat each other and every other member of their community with malicious cruelty, the tormented monkeys and birds in the neighborhood secretly plot their revenge. Throughout its narrative, The Twits explores themes such as personal responsibility, comeuppance, and the power of collaboration.
A writer of both children's fiction and short stories for adults, Roald Dahl (1916-1990) is best known as the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the story of a poor boy who because of his ho...
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Roald Dahl was flying over the African desert for the Royal Air Force during World War II when he was forced to make an emergency landing. He wrote in his first short story, "A Piece of Cake," "I reme...
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Roald Dahl began his career as a short-story writer after suffering through the horrors of severe canings and other punishments in oppressive British schools during the 1920s and 1930s and after endur...
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Roald Dahl was one of the most successful writers of children's books ever, both in terms of copies sold and money made. Ten months before his death, the five top-selling children's books in Britain w...
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Roald Dahl
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