Over to You - Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying

Informationen zum Autor Roald Dahl was a spy, ace fighter pilot, chocolate historian and medical inventor. He was also the author of Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG and many more brilliant stories. Klappentext Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in 1916 in Wales of Norwegian parents. He was educated in England before starting work for the Shell Oil Company in Africa, and began writing after a 'monumental bash on the head' sustained as an RAF fighter pilot during the Second World War. He worked in a tiny hut in the apple orchard of his house in Buckinghamshire until his death in 1990 at the age of 74. Roald Dahl's many books continue to be read by children the world over who delight in the magic of his marvellous storytelling. His books continue to be bestsellers, despite his death in 1990, and total sales are 100 million worldwide! Zusammenfassung Includes ten terrifying tales of life as a wartime fighter pilot.

Product details

• Authors: Roald Dahl
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2011
• EAN: 9780241955802
• ISBN: 978-0-241-95580-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Second World War fiction, Short Stories, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary