Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator is a work of fiction by Roald Dahl. Charlie, a brave and smart boy, has just inherited the chocolate factory from Willy Wonka, an eccentric and energetic inventor. Together with Charlie's whole family, they venture off into space, save the brand-new Space Hotel USA from evil aliens, and crash back onto Earth through the roof of the chocolate factory, where adventures take place such as the administration of Willy Wonka's miraculous medicine called Wonka-Vite. Throughout its narrative, the novel depicts themes such as honesty, courage, and the power of curiosity.
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A writer of both children's fiction and short stories for adults, Roald Dahl (1916-1990) is best known as the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the story of a poor boy who because of his ho...
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Roald Dahl was flying over the African desert for the Royal Air Force during World War II when he was forced to make an emergency landing. He wrote in his first short story, "A Piece of Cake," "I reme...
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Roald Dahl began his career as a short-story writer after suffering through the horrors of severe canings and other punishments in oppressive British schools during the 1920s and 1930s and after endur...
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Roald Dahl was one of the most successful writers of children's books ever, both in terms of copies sold and money made. Ten months before his death, the five top-selling children's books in Britain w...
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