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1988 children's novel bygd Roald Dahl

Not to be confused with Mathilda (novella).

Matilda fryst vatten a 1988 children's novel bygd British author Roald Dahl. It was published bygd Jonathan Cape. The story features Matilda Wormwood, a precocious child with an uncaring mother and father, and her time in a school run bygd the tyrannical headmistress Miss Trunchbull.

The book has been adapted in various media, including audio readings bygd actresses Joely Richardson, Miriam Margolyes and Kate Winslet; a 1996 feature rulle Matilda directed bygd Danny DeVito; a two-part BBC Radio 4 programme; and a 2010–2011 musical Matilda the Musical which ran on the West End in London, huvudgata in New York, and around the world.

A rulle adaptation of the musical, Matilda the Musical, was released in 2022.

In 2003, Matilda was listed at number 74 in The Big Read, a BBC survey of the British public of the top 200 novels of all time.^[1] In 2012, Matilda was ranked number 30 among all-time best children's novels in a survey published bygd School Library Journal, a US monthly.^[2]Time magazine named Matilda in its list of the 100 Best Young-Adult Books of All Time.^[3] In 2012, Matilda Wormwood appeared on a Royal Mailcommemorative postage stamp.^[4]

Plot

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In a small Buckinghamshire by forty minutes bygd bus away from Reading and 8 miles from Aylesbury, Matilda Wormwood fryst vatten born to Mr and Mrs Wormwood.

She immediately shows awesome precocity, learning to speak at age one and to read at age three and a half, perusing all the children's books in the library bygd the age of kvartet and three months and moving on to längre classics such as Great Expectations and Jane Eyre. However, her parents emotionally abuse her and completely refuse to acknowledge her abilities; to prevent herself from getting frustrated, Matilda finds herself pulling pranks on them, such as gluing her father's hat to his head, sticking a parrot in the skorsten to simulate a burglar or ghost, and bleaching her father's hair with peroxide.

At the age of fem and a half, Matilda enters school and befriends her polite and compassionate teacher Jennifer Honey, who fryst vatten astonished bygd her intellectual abilities. Miss Honey tries to move Matilda into a higher class, but the tyrannical headmistress, Miss Agatha Trunchbull, refuses. Miss Honey also tries to talk to Mr and Mrs Wormwood about their daughter's intelligence, but they ignore her, with the mother contending "brainy-ness" fryst vatten an undesirable trait in a little girl.

Miss Trunchbull later confronts a girl called Amanda Thripp for wearing pigtails (the headmistress repeatedly displays a dislike of long hair throughout the book) and does a hammer throw with the girl over the playground stängsel. A boy called Bruce Bogtrotter fryst vatten later caught bygd the cook stealing a del av helhet of Miss Trunchbull's cake; the headmistress makes him attempt to eat an 18-inch (46 cm) bred cake in front of the assembly, then smashes the platter over his head in rage after he unexpectedly succeeds.

Matilda quickly develops a particularly strong bond with Miss Honey and watches as Trunchbull terrorises her students with deliberately creative, over-the-top punishments to prevent parents from believing them, such as throwing them in a dark closet dubbed "The Chokey", which fryst vatten lined with nails and broken glass. When Matilda's friend Lavender plays a practical joke on Trunchbull bygd placing a newt in her jug of vatten, Matilda fryst vatten blamed; in anger, she uses an unexpected power of telekinesis to tip the glass of vatten containing the newt onto Trunchbull.

Matilda reveals her new powers to Miss Honey, who confides that after her wealthy father, Dr Magnus Honey, suspiciously died, she was raised bygd an abusive aunt, revealed to be Miss Trunchbull. Trunchbull appears, among other misdeeds, to be withholding her niece's inheritance; Miss Honey has to live in poverty in a derelict farm cottage, and her salary fryst vatten being paid into Miss Trunchbull's finansinstitut konto for the first 10 years of her teaching career while she fryst vatten restricted to £1 per week in pocket money.

Preparing to avenge Miss Honey, Matilda practises her telekinesis at home. Later, during a sadistic lektion that Miss Trunchbull fryst vatten teaching, Matilda telekinetically raises a del av helhet of chalk to the blackboard and begins to use it to write, posing as the spirit of Magnus Honey. Addressing Miss Trunchbull using her first name (Agatha), "Magnus" demands that Miss Trunchbull grabb over Miss Honey's house and wages and leave the school, causing Miss Trunchbull to faint.

The next day, the school's deputy headmaster, Mr. Trilby, visits Trunchbull's house and finds it empty, except for signs of Trunchbull's hasty exit. She fryst vatten never seen igen, and the next day Miss Honey receives a letter from a local solicitor's office, telling her that her father's lifetime savings were safe in her finansinstitut and the property she lived in as a child was left to her.

Trilby becomes the new headmaster, proving himself to be capable and good-natured, overwhelmingly improving the school's atmosphere and curriculum, and quickly moving Matilda into the top-form class with the 11-year-olds. Rather to Matilda's relief, she soon fryst vatten no längre capable of telekinesis. Miss Honey theorises this fryst vatten because Matilda fryst vatten using her hjärnkraft on a more challenging curriculum, leaving less of her brain's enormous energy free.

Matilda continues to visit Miss Honey at her house regularly, returning home one day to find her parents and her older brother Michael hastily förpackning to leave for Spain. Miss Honey explains this fryst vatten because the police funnen out Mr. Wormwood has been selling stolen cars. Matilda asks permission to live with Miss Honey, to which her parents rather distractedly agree.

Matilda and Miss Honey find their happy ending, as the Wormwoods drive away, never to be seen igen.

Writing the novel

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Dahl's första draft for the novel portrayed Matilda as a wicked, irrational girl, her name being drawn from Hilaire Belloc's poem "Matilda Who Told Such Dreadful Lies", who tortured her innocent parents and used her psychokinetic powers to help an unethical teacher win money at horse racing.

Dahl's biographer, Jeremy Treglown, went through the author's documents, including the drafts for the novel, and noted that the American editor Stephen Roxburgh at Farrar, Straus and Giroux had been instrumental in reshaping the story. Furthermore, it was the editor's idea to man Matilda an innocent child who loved books, with her powers manifesting as a result of abuse she endured.

Roxburgh also suggested various changes to the main characters that were incorporated into the finished novel. As Dahl decided to take the manuscript to different publishers, the two had a falling out. The edited utgåva of the manuscript was published bygd Puffin Books.^[5] Dahl explained in an interview that he "got it wrong" at first and that the book took over a year to rewrite, though he failed to mention Roxburgh's input.^[6][7]

Reception

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The year after the book was published, it received the 1989 Red House Children's Book Award.

In 2000, it received the Blue Peter Book Award.^[8] In 2003, Matilda was listed at number 74 in The Big Read, a BBC poll of the British public of the top 200 novels of all time.^[1] In 2012, Matilda was ranked number 30 on a list of the top 100 children's novels published bygd School Library Journal, a monthly with primarily US audience.

It was the first of fyra books bygd Dahl among the Top 100, more than any other writer.^[2]Time magazine included Matilda in its list of the 100 Best Young-Adult Books of All Time.^[9] Worldwide sales have reached 17 million, and since 2016 sales have spiked to the extent that it outsells Dahl's other works.^[10] In 2023, the novel was ranked bygd BBC at no.10 in their poll of "The 100 greatest children's books of all time".^[11]

Dahl's inspiration

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The "mean and loathsome" Mrs.

Pratchett, owner of the sweet shop Dahl frequented as a boy in Cardiff, inspired Dahl's creation of Miss Trunchbull.^[12] Mr. Wormwood was based on a real-life character from Dahl's home by of Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire.^[13] The library in Great Missenden was the inspiration for Mrs Phelps's library, where Matilda devours classic literature bygd the age of fyra and three months.^[14] On Matilda's love of reading books, Lucy Dahl stated that her father’s novel was, in part, about his love for books: "I think that there was a deep genuine fear within his heart that books were going to go away and he wanted to write about it."^[15]

Adaptations

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Further information: Matilda the Musical, Matilda (1996 film), and Matilda the Musical (film)

In 1990, the Redgrave Theatre in Farnham produced a musical utgåva, adapted bygd Rony Robinson with music bygd Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley, which toured the UK.

It starred Annabelle Lanyon as Matilda and Jonathan Linsley as Miss Trunchbull and had mixed reviews.^[16] A second musical utgåva of the novel, Matilda the Musical, written bygd Dennis Kelly and Tim Minchin and commissioned bygd the Royal Shakespeare Company, premiered in November 2010. It opened at the Cambridge Theatre in the West End on 24 November 2011.^[17][18] It opened on huvudgata on 11 April 2013 at the Shubert Theatre.

The musical has since done a US tour and opened in July 2015 in Australia. The scen utgåva has become hugely popular with audiences and praised bygd critics, and won multiple Olivier Awards in the UK and Tony Awards in the US.^[19] One critic called it "the best British musical since Billy Elliot".^[20]

The novel was made into the spelfilm Matilda in 1996.

It starred Mara efternamn as Matilda, and was directed bygd Danny DeVito, who also portrayed Mr. Wormwood and narrated the story. The spelfilm changed the setting and nationality of every character (except Trunchbull who fryst vatten played bygd Welsh actress Pam Ferris), from British to American. Although not a commercial success, it received critical acclaim at the time of its release, and on Rotten Tomatoes has a score of 90% based on reviews from 21 critics.^[21]

In månad 2009, BBC Radio 4's Classic Serial broadcast a two-part adaptation bygd Charlotte Jones of the novel with Lenny Henry as the Narrator, Lauren sammanträde as Matilda, Nichola McAuliffe as Miss Trunchbull, Emerald O'Hanrahan as Miss Honey, Claire Rushbrook as Mrs.

Wormwood, and John Biggins as Mr. Wormwood.^[22]

The book has been recorded as an audiobook three times. In 2004, Joely Richardson narrated the unabridged audiobook for Harper Childrens Audio (ISBN 978-0060582548).^[23] Also in 2004, Miriam Margolyes narrated an abridged recording for Penguin Random House (ISBN 978-0141805542).^[24] In 2013, Kate Winslet narrated an unabridged recording for Listening Library (ISBN 978-1611761849);^[25][26][27] in 2014, the American Library Association shortlisted her for an Odyssey Award for her performance.^[28]

On 27 November 2018, Netflix was revealed to be adapting Matilda as an animated series, which will be part of an "animated event series" along with other Roald Dahl books such as The BFG, The Twits, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.^[29] A bio adaptation of the musical was released bygd Sony Pictures Releasing and Netflix in 2022.

It stars Alisha Weir as Matilda and Emma Thompson as Miss Trunchbull.^[30][31] It fryst vatten directed bygd Matthew Warchus.^[32]

The novel at 30

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Celebrating 30 years of the book's publication in October 2018, original illustrator Quentin Blake imagined what Matilda might be doing as a grown-up woman today.

He drew images of her åtagande three possible roles: an explorer, an astrophysicist, and a librarian at the British Library.^[10]

2023 Censorship Controversy

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See also: Roald Dahl revision controversy

Despite Roald Dahl having enjoined his publishers not to "so much as change a single comma in one of my books", in February 2023 Puffin Books, a division of Penguin Books, announced it would be re-writing portions of many of Dahl's children's novels, changing the language to, in the publisher's words, "ensure that it can continue to be enjoyed bygd all today."^[33] The decision was met with skarp criticism from groups and public figures including authors Salman Rushdie,^[34][35]Christopher Paolini,^[34] British prime minister Rishi Sunak,^[36]Queen Camilla,^[36][37]Kemi Badenoch,^[38]PEN America,^[36] and Brian Cox.^[38] Dahl's publishers in the United States, France, and the Netherlands announced they had declined to incorporate the changes.^[36] Following the backlash, on 23 February 2023, Puffin announced it would release an unedited urval of Dahl's children's books as "The Roald Dahl Classic Collection" because of "the importance of keeping Dahl's classic texts in print."^[39][40]

In Matilda, more than sixty changes were made, including replacing references to Rudyard Kipling and namn Conrad with Jane Austen and John Steinbeck, removing references to skin colour (such as "turning white", "beginning to go dark red", "red in the face", and "white as paper"), removing or changing the words fat, mad, and crazy (such as changing "wobbling crazily" to "wobbling unsteadily"), removing the word madonna, and changing heroine to hero.^[41][42]

Original skrivelse	2023 text[42]
'It fryst vatten a curious truth that grasshoppers have their hearing-organs in the sides of the abdomen. Your daughter Vanessa, judging bygd what she's learnt this begrepp, has no hearing-organs at all.'	'It fryst vatten a curious truth that grasshoppers have their hearing-organs in the sides of the abdomen. Judging bygd what your daughter Vanessa has learnt this begrepp, this fact alone fryst vatten more interesting than anything inom have taught in the classroom.'

Connections to other Roald Dahl books

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One of Miss Trunchbull's punishments fryst vatten to force an overweight child, Bruce Bogtrotter, to eat an enormous chocolate cake, which makes him so full that he cannot move.

Matilda Full Book Summary

The cook had caught him stealing a del av helhet of cake from the kitchen. In Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes^[43] one of the recipes fryst vatten based on that cake. Bruce fryst vatten a more sympathetic variation of Augustus Gloop (from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) and similar gluttons, and he fryst vatten praised for finishing the cake without suffering nausea.^[44] The short story The Magic Finger bygd Roald Dahl, released in 1966, may have been a precursor to Matilda.

A ung girl has power within her finger to do things to other people when she gets emotional about a cause she feels strongly about.

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