Boy: Tales of Childhood

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The author's father, Harald, is a Norwegian shipbroker who makes a comfortable living for his family after starting a shipbroker company in Wales. In the wake of his daughter's death, Harald falls ill and dies of pneumonia several weeks later. Sofie Dahl 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.

BOY, Roald Dahl's bestselling autobiography, is full of hilarious anecdotes about his childhood and school days, illustrated by Quentin Blake. Dahl married American actress Patricia Neal on 2 July 1953 at Trinity Church in New York City. Their marriage lasted for 30 years and they had five children: a b "Roald Dahl – Biography". BBC Wales. 2 February 2010. Archived from the original on 25 February 2021 . Retrieved 23 September 2020. Phillips, Catherine (13 September 2016). "Top ten best-selling Roald Dahl books revealed". Worcester News. Archived from the original on 28 January 2022 . Retrieved 1 October 2020.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. Conant, Jennet (2008). The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4165-8032-4. Archived from the original on 17 April 2023 . Retrieved 23 September 2020.

You'll hear tales of horrible school bullies and the motor-car accident when Roald's nose was nearly sliced clean off . . . Dahl beats all competitors to collect honour as nation's favourite author". thegurdian. 10 March 2000. Archived from the original on 8 October 2020 . Retrieved 5 October 2020. Solomon, Tom (2016). Roald Dahl's Marvellous Medicine. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 9781781383469. Archived from the original on 7 April 2023 . Retrieved 24 October 2022.Cameron, Eleanor (19 October 1972). "McLuhan, Youth, and Literature: Part I". The Horn Book. Archived from the original on 10 August 2020 . Retrieved 14 October 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. The Headmaster at Repton is a short clergyman known for the vicious beatings he doles out to boys at the school. Dahl considers it hypocritical that the man preaches mercy and forgiveness in the chapel while carrying on with such brutal punishments. Dahl finds it even more ironic when the man eventually becomes Archbishop of Canterbury, meaning he crowns Queen Elizabeth II in an event half the world watches on TV. Thwaites Think Twice about Roald Dahl". Lilith Magazine. 27 September 1998. Archived from the original on 19 October 2020 . Retrieved 14 October 2020. Roald Dahl to be posthumously honoured with a Gold Blue Peter badge". BBC. Archived from the original on 17 September 2019 . Retrieved 17 May 2019.

Roald Dahl: The fighter pilot". Roald Dahl.com. Archived from the original on 25 October 2019 . Retrieved 21 January 2020. Mr. Coombes is the Headmaster of the elementary school Dahl attends as a young boy. He disciplines Dahl and other misbehaving boys with brutal canings. Matron Captain Hardcastle is one of the teachers Dahl most fears while at boarding school. He has bright orange hair and an orange mustache that curls up at the ends. When he overhears Dahl ask another boy for a writing nib, Hardcastle accuses him of cheating on his essay and sends him to the Headmaster for a caning. The Headmaster of Repton Prep School

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