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More about Boy : Roald Dahl's tales from childhood
- Title
- More about Boy : Roald Dahl's tales from childhood / Roald Dahl.
- Author
- Dahl, Roald.
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2009.
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Details
- Description
- 229 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles; 23 cm
- Summary
- Humorous anecdotes from the author's childhood describe summer vacations in Norway and life in an English boarding school.
- Alternative Title
- Roald Dahl's tales from childhood
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Literature.
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Juvenile works.
- Note
- Originally published: London : Puffin Books, 2008.
- Contents
- Starting-point : Papa and Mama -- More about Mama -- Kindergarten, 1922/3 -- A grand time. Llandaff Cathedral School, 1923/5 (age 7/9) : The bicycle and the sweet-shop -- The great mouse plot -- A life without sweets -- Going to Norway -- The magic island -- A visit to the doctor -- The last lap. St. Peter's, 1925/9 (age 9-13) : First day -- Writing home -- The matron -- Homesickness -- A drive in the motor-car -- The Maccano chariot -- Captain Hardcastle -- How I became a writer -- Little Ellis and the boil -- Goat's tobacco. Repton and Shell, 1929/36 (age 13/20) : Getting dressed for the big school -- Boazers -- Painful punishments -- The headmaster -- Chocolates -- Horrid little boys and girls -- Corkers -- Fagging -- That awful cold bath -- Games and photography -- Goodbye school. P.S : Excerpt from Going solo -- A Dahl-tastic quiz.
- Call Number
- J B DAHL D
- ISBN
- 9780374350550
- 0374350558
- LCCN
- 2009016118
- OCLC
- 317455624
- Author
- Dahl, Roald.
- Title
- More about Boy : Roald Dahl's tales from childhood / Roald Dahl.
- Imprint
- New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2009.
- Edition
- 1st American ed.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- J B DAHL D