#Roald Dahl About The Author Series Of Strokes#

Chocolate and empire: from the land where the cocoa growsDahlвЂ™s famous tale was adapted for the silver screen as Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, released in 1971. A brief history of how we fell in love with caffeine and chocolate вЂњIt was then I realised that inside this great CadburyвЂ™s chocolate factory there must be an inventing room, a secret place where fully grown men and women in white overalls spent all their time playing around with sticky boiling messes, sugar and chocs, and mixing them up and trying to invent something new and fantastic,вЂќ he wrote.

However, after seeing Quentin BlakeвЂ™s preliminary drawings, Roald Dahl didnвЂ™t think this looked right,вЂќ says RoaldDahl.com. In one, Charlie Bucket visited Willy WonkaвЂ™s home and fell into a chocolate mould, while in another 10 children visited the factory (rather than the five who appeared in the published book), according to RoaldDahl.com.In early drafts of The BFG, Roald Dahl вЂњdescribed the BFG as wearing big black boots and a leather apron. The first draft is also much scarier than the published book вЂ“ in the original version, James meets a witch who wants to cut off his legs in exchange for magic green crystals.Charlie and the Chocolate Factory went through several early drafts. Instead, Gene Wilder was cast.6 Some of DahlвЂ™s most popular works underwent a number of early draftsJames and the Giant Peach, DahlвЂ™s first novel aimed at children, was reportedly almost called James and the Giant Cherry, but was changed because Dahl said a peach was вЂњprettier, bigger and squishier than a cherryвЂќ.

Roald Dahl About The Author Series Of Strokes

However, with RoaldвЂ™s help, she learned to walk and talk again. And in February 1965 his wife, actress Patricia Neal, suffered a series of strokes while filming John FordвЂ™s Seven Women in Los Angeles.The strokes left Patricia in a coma for three weeks after regaining consciousness she was semi-paralysed and unable to speak. Following TheoвЂ™s brain injury in 1960, in November 1962 DahlвЂ™s eldest daughter, Olivia, died from measles encephalitis, aged just seven. At first, says RoaldDahl.com, вЂњMatilda was a wicked child who plagued her poor, kind parents and caused havoc at school, ultimately redeeming herself through helping her teacher вЂ“ an early version of Miss Honey вЂ“ get out of financial difficulty by fixing a horse race.вЂќ The author quickly realised his mistake and rewrote what would become his last long childrenвЂ™s book.8 Some of Roald DahlвЂ™s best-known childrenвЂ™s books were written during the most troubled years of his lifeThe 1960s were particularly difficult years for Roald Dahl. вЂњIf you look closely at the pictures of the BFG, youвЂ™ll see that heвЂ™s wearing the same ones.вЂќThe author said of his 1988 novel Matilda: вЂњI had awful trouble with itвЂ¦ I got it wrongвЂ¦ the main character, the little girl kept changingвЂќ.

His 1948 novel Some Time Never: A Fable for Supermen вЂ“ a dark account of nuclear war вЂ“ was poorly received. It inspired a British television series of the same name, which aired between 19, adapted from DahlвЂ™s stories.DahlвЂ™s long-form adult fiction was less successful. Tales of the Unexpected вЂ“ a compilation of 16 previously published short stories вЂ“ was published in 1979. Between 19 he published four collections of adult tales, and his comic novel for adults, My Uncle Oswald, was published in 1979.

Dahl also wrote the screenplay for a 1973 TV special of James and the Giant Peach, which never aired.