![]() ![]() The author's writing hut has been replicated exactly in the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre. They know from the start it's a fairy tale, so the content is never going to influence their minds one way or another,' he once said. 'I am passionately obsessed with making the young readers laugh and squirm and love the story. Unlike other children's books, Dahl's writing was never didactic or moralising he revelled in high jinks and naughtiness. He started writing during the Second World War and, in 1943, The Gremlins was published, the first of a run of funny and imaginative stories published in hundreds of languages. The houses became quaint and pretty as the train whizzed out of London.ĭahl was born in Cardiff in 1916 to Norwegian parents. Trees were slightly burnished by the beginning of autumn and leaves browned like the top of an apple crumble. The cerulean sky set everything off the day I travelled to Great Missenden, the little country village in the Chilterns made famous by its erstwhile resident Roald Dahl, to visit his archives. ![]() The book explores Britain's national obsession with foxes loved and vilified in equal measure. The extract below is taken from Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain by Lucy Jones, published by Elliott & Thompson. ![]()
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