Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Puffin Teenage Books) [Paperback]

Roald Dahl (Author)

Book Description

Series: Puffin Teenage Books | Publication Date: September 27, 2001

Roald Dahl turns his pen to anything, twisting everyday life into powerful, and sometimes terrifying fantasies: Turtles, Fingersmiths, The Mildenhall, Treasure, even the spooky story of the man who can see without eyes.

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About the Author

Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. With the outbreak of World War II, he became an RAF fighter pilot. Despite his death in 1990, he is still the best selling children's writer of all time.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Puffin (September 27, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0141311495
• ISBN-13: 978-0141311494
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #120,827 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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More About the Author

Roald Dahl (1916-1990) was born in Llandaff, South Wales, and went to Repton School in England. His parents were Norwegian, so holidays were spent in Norway. As he explains in Boy, he turned down the idea of university in favor of a job that would take him to"a wonderful faraway place. In 1933 he joined the Shell Company, which sent him to Mombasa in East Africa. When World War II began in 1939 he became a fighter pilot and in 1942 was made assistant air attaché in Washington, where he started to write short stories. His first major success as a writer for children was in 1964. Thereafter his children's books brought him increasing popularity, and when he died children mourned the world over, particularly in Britain where he had lived for many years.The BFG is dedicated to the memory of Roald Dahls eldest daughter, Olivia, who died from measles when she was seven - the same age at which his sister had died (fron appendicitis) over forty years before. Quentin Blake, the first Children's Laureate of the United Kingdom, has illustrated most of Roald Dahl's children's books.