![]() In original unclipped ($13.95) dust jacket. ![]() Original quarter red cloth with gilt-stamped blue boards and gilt-lettered spine. Despite all that rage, on the page and essentially inseparable from the page, the inscrutable operations of Nemesis posthumously rewarded the famously adaptation-hating author with not one but two highly successful adaptations of his last great work for those who would rather watch than read: the classic and faithful 1996 film starring Mara Wilson, and an ambitious and well-received 2022 musical. It is an explicitly pro-book-reading text, and what it is for goes hand in hand with what it is against: repression, injustice, and television, television, television. Like all of Dahl's books, MATILDA pops at the seams with fury and spite, and like his best books, it is furious and spiteful about the right things: hateful parents, abuse of authority, all the petty cruelties and humiliations of childhood. A model for child prodigies, a wistful dream for harried schoolteachers, a perfect librarian's pet and the avenging angel of the elementary grades - Matilda Wormwood is an icon. ![]() Lovely first US edition of Dahl's novel, still beloved by contemporary children and nostalgic adults alike. ![]()
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