The Complete Short Stories of Roald Dahl in the first of two unsettling and sinister volumes. "They are brutal, these stories, and yet you finish reading e... Z Svěrák - 《Penguin》 被引量: 0发表: 2013年 加载更多研究点推荐 Sound Machine ...
to censor new editions of Roald Dahl books has taken another dystopian twist, with owners of Roald Dahl ebooks reporting that their copies have been automatically updated to the new, woke versions. The publisher’s decision to airbrush Roald Dahl children’s books with woke language, with altered...
It's music is terrific, the story is charming, and the characters are very likable. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is based on the Ian Fleming novel of the same name, and the screenplay was written by Roald Dahl. So this one was always destined to be a classic. Alamy Stock Photo by Atlaspix...
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She started by applying at the British Embassy in Washington, where she was aided by the young Roald Dahl and the playright and World War One veteran flyer Ben Travers. Then it was a matter of getting to England, which she finally did in October 1942, along with a boatfull of Roayl ...
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (1961) Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney (1984) Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner (1942) The General of the Dead Army by Ismail Kadare (1963) The Tunnel by William H. Gass (1995) The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud...
I have been since I read about Roald Dahl’s ludicrous run of good luck that led him to survive World War 2 and go on to be an author. His story is survivorship bias at its most obvious, but it is there in every war story. Actually, all the stories we hear are survivor stories....
Danny DeVito threw himself into the first cinematic adaptation of Roald Dahl’sMatilda. DeVito not only directed the film, he cast himself as Harry Wormwood, and his then wife, Rhea Perlman, as Harry’s wife, Zinnia, the less-than-proud parents of Matilda Wormwood (Mara Wilson). ...
and a few have been employed to go over books by Ian Fleming and Roald Dahl, thus changing the books from their original contexts. But in situations like this, where I want to tell a specific kind of story but I don’t want to accidentally offend someone by including something that I ...
The voices of the usual suspects–Anjelica Huston, Jason Schwartzman, and Bill Murray, along with the additions of George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, and Meryl Streep–will be superimposed onto the characters of Roald Dahl's The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Anderson's latest film project, due in theatres ...